Lot 224
Greswell, William Henry Parr. A collection of books and pamphlets, including; Our South African Empire, 2 volumes, original cloth, 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1885; The Forests and Deer Parks of the County of Somerset, 350 copies only, original cloth, 8vo, Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1905; Chapters on the Early History of Glastonbury Abbey, 500 copies only, original cloth, 8vo, Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1909; a volume of press cutting of obituaries and notices of the author's death, a collection of pamphlets relating to colonization, c. 1880s, some with correspondence loosely inserted, bound in two large vellum volumes, an album of watercolours of wild flowers around Kilve by M. Blanche Greswell (the author's wife), a manuscript volume documenting the library at Kilve, and 36 others concerning the Greswell family, v.s. (42)
Rev. William Henry Parr Greswell (1848-1923) was the son of William Parr Greswell (1796-1876) and grandson of the clergyman and bibliographer William Parr Greswell (1765-1854). After leaving university, he moved to South Africa and lectured at Cape Town University, becoming an authority of colonialism. He returned to Somerset in the 1880s and became the vicar of Kilve, marrying Blanche Carew in 1895. He was the author of many books and essays on the colonies broadly and Somerset specifically, including the notable, The Land of Quantock (1903).
