The pageant of London / by Richard Davey. With forty illustrations in colour by John Fulleylove, R.I. ...
Richard Davey (1845 - 1915)
Category
Books
Date
1906
Materials
Book, paper.
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3010445
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : col. ill. ; 8vo. Bookseller's pencil note on second front free endpaper verso in v. 1: "1st Edn / scarce & O.P." Ephemera: loosely inserted card in v. 1: key to emblems on binding. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full blue morocco; gilt fillets and roll to form a panel design on boards; gilt stamped emblems on boards (clockwise from top): (1) Father Thames; (2) emblem of Bridge House Estates; (3) portcullis [i.e. Westminster]; (4) crest of the City of London; sewn onto five raised bands; spines lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The pageant of London / Davey', 'I[-II] / B.C. 40 to A.D. 1500[-A.D. 1500 to 1900]' and '1906'; double gilt fillet on board edges; elaborate gilt roll and fillets on turn-ins; gilt top edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-ins: 'Asprey. London. England.'
Makers and roles
Richard Davey (1845 - 1915), author John Fulleylove (Leicester 1845 - London 1908), illustrator