Messrs. Knight, Frank & Rutley:~ The Quenby Estate, Leiceste...

Hammer

£50

Messrs. Knight, Frank & Rutley:~ The Quenby Estate, Leicestershire [...], Including Quenby Hall, A perfect specimen of Jacobean Architecture, circa 1610 - 1620, By direction of The Lady Henry Grosvenor, To be Offered by Auction, in Three Lots [...] Friday, June 27th [1913], 2 o'clock, (Unless previously disposed of by Private Treaty), 43pp, illustrated throughout with reproduced photographic reproductions of the exterior of the house, its elevation and grounds, and also its interior complete with house contents, printed card covers as issued, floppy crown folio; loosely inserted related ephemera, including, after Robert Morden (c. 1650 - 1703), a two-page map, Leicestershire, from Camden's Britannia 1722, monochrome copperplate engraving, 39cm x 44cm, the front pastedown pasted with a map of Leicestershire/Rutland highlighting the circumference of the estate, carbon copies and letters relating to the Ashby of Quenby pedigree and their South Carolina branch, an early 19th century engraving of the front elevation from the Gentleman's Magazine, August 1814; b/w postcards of the house and its elevations (4); newspaper and magazine clippings, etc