Collectanea Cantabrigiensia, or Collections relating to Cambridge, university, town, and county, : containing the monumental inscriptions in all the chapels of the several colleges, and parish churches in the town, and in several others in the county; with a list of the mayors; the most ancient charters of the town; and other historical memoirs of several colleges, &c. / By Francis Blomefield, late of Caius College, now rector of Fersfield, and Brockdish in Norfolk, and minister of St. Mary in Coslany, in the city of Norwich.
Francis Blomefield (1705-1752)
Category
Books
Date
1750
Materials
Book with calf binding.
Place of origin
Norwich
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3028551
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 268 p. ; 4to. Variant with errata at foot of p. 268. Imprint date changed to MDCCLI [1751]; the I has been subsequently erased. Second leaf is dedication to Thomas-Pelham Holles. Booksellers' pencil notes in various hands on front pastedown: "Cambridge (2)", "Scarce" and "with the addition of the Dedication to the Duke of Newcastle, 1750 + p. 268 reprinted with the Errata instead of Ornament (First issue)". Booksellers' codes, prices[?] and numbers on front pastedown: "y/x", "60", "15/-" [crossed through in pencil], "10/6", "483", "c", "bi" [crossed through in pencil] and "b '34". Pencil numbers at foot of front free endpaper: "L111", "121", "L110", "136" and "L103". Pencil marks on rear pastedown: "I/-" and "CO". Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "M.D. Duffield. Bought this book at Stevenson's in Cambridge, July. 1826. price 15.s." Pencil inscription on second front free endpaper: "F.P. Morrell Oxford". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Historic shelfmark in ink on front pastedown: "A 5 31". Binding: Eighteenth-century quarter sheep, calf over boards; sewn onto three cords with five raised bands; rebacked (twentieth-century), spine entirely replaced; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Blomefield / Collecta Cantab:' and '1750'; gilt rolled board edges; red textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Francis Blomefield (1705-1752), author