The works of Soame Jenyns, Esq. : In four volumes. Including several pieces never before published. To which are prefixed, short sketches of the history of the author's family, and also of his life; / by Charles Nalson Cole, Esq. ...
Soame Jenyns (1704 - 1787)
Category
Books
Date
1790
Materials
Book, calf binding.
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3011041
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. : port. ; 8vo. Ephemera: tipped-in clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this set in v. 1, price: £1 15s. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso in v. 1: "4 vols." Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late eighteenth-century full tree calf; gilt rolled outer border on boards; recessed cords; gilt tooled spines; green spine labels, gilt tooled: 'Jenyn's works'; black and red spine labels, gilt tooled: '1[-4]'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers; yellow textblock edges; pink ribbon marker in each vol.
Makers and roles
Soame Jenyns (1704 - 1787) , author Charles Nalson Cole (1723-1804), author