Author: Historical Manuscripts Commission
Title: Report On Manuscripts In Various Collections Volume II [2] : The Manuscripts Of Sir George Wombwell, The Duke Of Norfolk, Lord Edmund Talbot, Miss Buxton, Mrs Harford And Mrs Wentworth Of Woolley [ Historical Manuscripts Commission Series 55 Volume II ]
Description: HMSO - His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1903, 1st edition. Half calf, G. xl+527pp, Ex Archaeological Society Library in a half red calf over cloth binding, two bookplates, slight splitting to the leather at the spine with some rubbing, but still a solid copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Complete in itself the volume contains MSS from various - Wombwell's papers are of the families Belsyse, Fairfax, Viscounts Faconberg with many early charters and deeds, family accounts etc, Miss Buxton's papers realte to the French Secretary at Calais etc etc

Keywords: history, paleography, Historical Manuscripts Commission, british history, medieval history,