"The Life Of Fredrick, Baron Trenck" 1788 TRENCK, Fredrick Baron [written by himself]

TRENCK, Fredrick Baron [written by himself]

Volume I: [231] pp.

Volume II: [211] pp.

J. Murray

1788

7 1/4" x 4 1/2"

w/ armorial bookplate of Francis Longe Spixworth Park Norfolk

Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck (16 February 1726 – 25 July 1794) was a Prussian officer, adventurer, and author.

Spixworth Hall was an Elizabethan stately home situated in the civil parish of Spixworth, Norfolk, located just north of the city of Norwich on the Buxton Road, until it was demolished in 1952.

The hall's library consisted of one of the most extensive collections of first-edition books of any stately home in the UK with works by William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Miquel de Cervantes. As was fashionable with large households, records show that the Longe family kept animals including a large monkey who used to live in the stable block and a bear who lived in the butler's cottage and the wine cellar. The Lordship of the Manor is still held by the Longe family as well as much of the surrounding parkland.