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Armorial Bookplate – Edward Pery Buckley
Description
'The Works of Sterne' in ten volumes, 1780
Edward Pery Buckley was of Woolcombe Hall, Dorset, and Minestead Lodge, Hampshire. He was born in 1760, the son of Pery Buckley and Martha the daughter of William Batt. He was a Lt Colonel in the South-West Hampshire militia and married in 1782 Georgina, daughter of John West, Earl de la Warr, lady of the bedchamber to the daughters of George III. For thirty years he was first equerry and later groom of the bedchamber in the royal household. He died in 1840.
Arms:
Argent a chevron between three bull’s head caboshed Sable
BUCKLEY
impaling
Argent a fess dancetty Sable WEST
Crest:
From a ducal coronet Or a bull’s head Argent
Object history
The book was purchased in 1986. The bookplate features in all ten volumes. The book is fully bound in marbled leather and the first volume has a frontispiece of Sterne.
Accession number
CCWSH:0276a-j
Dimensions
Height 170mm
Width 110mm
Author
Sterne, Laurence
Date
1780
Publisher
Printed for Strahan, W, Rivington, J & Sons and nine others