Shelfmark
CSR.1323 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
CSR.1323 (copy 2)
Author
Title
Ancestral tablets : a collection of diagrams for pedigrees, so arranged that eight generations of the ancestors of any person may be recorded in a connected and simple form / by William H. Whitmore.
Edition
8th ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Elliot Stock, c1885.
Physical description
16 leaves ; 31 cm.
Note
"The book begins in the middle, and the pagination extends on each half, back towards the covers"--Explanation.
Note
Imprint printed on a label pasted on the title page.
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. inscriptions in black ink on title page verso reading: "Gerald Lambart from his father, 1908" [father probably Edgar Alan Lambart], and "To Lily Lambart. October 1928".
Provenance
Copy 2: Ms. inscription in black ink on title page verso reading: "Julian Lambart from his father, 1908" [father probably Edgar Alan Lambart].
Binding
19th century quarter brown morocco over green cloth boards; gilt titling on front board; white label on front boards with ms. initials of owners; blank endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Reference collection.
Copy-specific note
Both copies bear a ms. Latin quotation in black ink on the "Explanation" verso, taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses, reading: "Genus et proavos, et quae non fecimus ipsi, vix ea nostra voco".
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Two sheets of paper loosely inserted with ms. annotations in blue ink about the Maxwell descent, signed by Margaret Cheverix-French and thanking for having been able to lend the tablets.
Copy-specific note
Both copies heavily annotated.
Subject
Genealogy Forms.
Genre/Form
Blank forms.
Genre/Form
Genealogical tables.
Added entry--name
Lambart, Julian Harold Legge, 1893 - 1982 former owner.
Added entry--name
Lambart, Gerald Edgar Oliver Fortescue, 1885 - 1916 former owner.
Added entry--name
Lambart, Lily Georgina Harriett Gordon, 1887 - 1974 former owner.
Added entry--name
Lambart, Edgar Alan, 1857 - 1930 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B55156