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[Bookplate for Edward Brown Lees and Dorothy Livesey Lees] [unknown]

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Title [Bookplate for Edward Brown Lees and Dorothy Livesey Lees]
Date Created [unknown]
Description Bookplate design is circular, with an escutcheon divided per pale. Primary charges are a lion rampant and falcons. Above the shield is an esquire helmet and a straight wreath charged with another falcon. Circular banner surrounding escutcheon contains bookplate owner's names.
Extent 1 bookplate : steel engraving ; 8.9 x 11.4 cm
Subject Heraldry
Geographic Location England
Person Or Corporation Lees, Edward Brown
Lees, Dorothy Livesey
Genre Prints
Type Still Image
FileFormat image/jpeg
Language Latin
Notes Thurland Castle is an estate located in Lancaster, a county in northwestern England. According to a 1914 publication, "A History of the County of Lancaster," Thurland Castle was sold to Edward Brown Lees in 1885. Burke's Landed Gentry notes Edward Brown Lees was educated at Eton and Exeter College at Oxford, married Dorothy Livesey in 1877, and had five children. Edward died 27 August 1896 and Dorothy in 1912.
References:
1) Burke, Bernard. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. H. Pirie-Gordon, ed. 15th Ed. London: Shaw Publishing Co. Ltd. and Burke Publishing Co. Ltd., 1937. 1346.
2) Fincham, H.W. The Artists and Engravers of British and American Bookplates. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1897.
3) Heraldric Dictionary. University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Special Collections. Accessed 18 Nov. 2008 from http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/heraldry/
4) Lancashire. Wikipedia. Accessed 9 March 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire.
5) 'Townships: Cantsfield', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8 (1914), pp. 232-237. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53307 Date accessed: 09 March 2009.
Identifier BP MUR ENG P L447
BP_MUR_ENG_P_L447
Collection RBSC Bookplates
Source Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Thomas Murray Bookplates Collection. Leslie Binder. BP MUR ENG P L447
Date Available 2009
Provider Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca
DOI 10.14288/1.0215471
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Fide sed cui vide Edward Brown Lees and Doroth Livesey his wife Thurland Castle

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