KENT. BRIDGMAN (John). An Historical and Topographical Sketch of Knole, in Kent; with a brief Genealogy of the Sackville Family.1817

London: Published by W. Lindsell, First edition, 8vo (212 x 130 mm), viii, 164pp., with half-title and final errata slip, 4 acquatint plates (of which 3 are perspective views and one of illustrating architectural details), 5 engraved plates with Sackville coats of arms, some light foxing and offsetting from plates, orig. marbled boards, neatly rebacked, spine gilt tooled. First edition of this history and guide book to Knole, the ancestral seat of the Sackville family, built in the second half of the fifteenth century and enlarged to its present impressive size in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Provenance: From the library of Josceline Grove, with bookplate and their typed catalogue description pasted to front endpapers. Holmes, p.152; Cooper II, pp.157-8.