1853 CICILIA AND ITS GOVENORS THOMAS BAILY LIBRARY: An historical account of Cicily, Italy 1.) Title: Lares and Penates or Cilicia and its Governors; Being a Short Historical Account of that Province from the Earliest Times to the Present day: Together with a Description of some of the household Gods of the Ancient Cicicians, et al. Author: William Burckhardt Barker, MRAS, Edited by William Francis Ainsworth, FRGS, FGS. Publisher: London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853. Binding: 8.5”h x 5.875, Leather with gilded details and a deeply impressed scrollwork medallion to either side, marbled endpapers and edges. Printed illustrations and a fold out map. Notes: Title page with embossed heraldic stamp of Thomas Farmer Baily and notation numbers under the image.

Thomas Farmer Baily (1823 – 1876, England) of Hall Place in Kent and Sunnyside, Isle of Wight was the only son of Farmer Baily, of the firm of William Baily and Sons of Gracechurch Street in London, ironmongers, who bought Hall Place in 1821, and of Amelia Perkins. Thomas Farmer Baily lived much of his youth in Italy, and his first wife was Italian. He married, in 1863, as his second wife, Gertrude Sarah Addison. His library was sold at auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge on the 4 December 1876. The 1,500 lots realized £1,269. Ref. British Armorial Bindings, https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/BAI003, Accessed 12/21/2016.