Sir Samuel Meyrick And Goodrich Court.
£20.00
Publisher
Logaston Press
Place
Little Logaston, Almeley, Herefordshire
Date
2003
Item Description
Large 8vo. 9.5 x 7 inches. xiii + [i] + 290 pp. In pictorial card wrapper. Minor wear to lower corner of front wrapper, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 16 pages of colour plates, 134 text figures and by genealogical tables. Account of the life of the antiquarian, Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783-1848) and of the house he had built, Goodrich Court, Herefordshire. He was a collector and a pioneer of the systematic study of arms and armour, publishing the authoritative three volume work, A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour in 1824. Some of his collections are held by the British Museum and the Wallace Collection. By Rosalind Lowe, Herefordshire local historian.
[Stock No. 28868]
