18th century provincial bookseller.- Swift (Jonathan) The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen, first edition, slightly browned, booklabel of A. Eyre - Grove on front pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt, corners bumped, rubbed, [Teerink 809; Rothschild 2186], 8vo, A. Millar, 1758. ⁂ Loosely inserted signed invoice by John Best bookseller of Barnsley, to Anthony Eyre for the above copy of Swift's Four Last Years of the Queen. Anthony Eyre (1727-1788), only son of Anthony Eyre Esq. of Adwick le Street, south Yorkshire, succeeded his father to estates at Rampton and elsewhere in 1748. He entered Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1745. He sat as MP for Boroughbridge for the Duke of Newcastle's interest between 1774 and 1784. Through his wife he acquired the manor and estate at Headon in Nottinghamshire. In 1762 he purchased the manor and estate of Grove in Nottinghamshire, adjacent to his other properties at Rampton, Treswell and Headon, from Mr William Levinz. He undertook alterations to Grove Hall and made it his principal residence.
18th century provincial bookseller.- Swift (Jonathan) The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen, first edition, slightly browned, booklabel of A. Eyre - Grove on front pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt, corners bumped, rubbed, [Teerink 809; Rothschild 2186], 8vo, A. Millar, 1758. ⁂ Loosely inserted signed invoice by John Best bookseller of Barnsley, to Anthony Eyre for the above copy of Swift's Four Last Years of the Queen. Anthony Eyre (1727-1788), only son of Anthony Eyre Esq. of Adwick le Street, south Yorkshire, succeeded his father to estates at Rampton and elsewhere in 1748. He entered Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1745. He sat as MP for Boroughbridge for the Duke of Newcastle's interest between 1774 and 1784. Through his wife he acquired the manor and estate at Headon in Nottinghamshire. In 1762 he purchased the manor and estate of Grove in Nottinghamshire, adjacent to his other properties at Rampton, Treswell and Headon, from Mr William Levinz. He undertook alterations to Grove Hall and made it his principal residence.
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