History of the University and colleges of Cambridge; : including notices relating to the founders and eminent men. / By G. Dyer, ... ; Illustrated by a series of engravings. In two volumes.
George Dyer (1755-1841)
Category
Books
Date
1814
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3035174
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill. ; 8vo. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on third front free endpaper in both vols.: "Mary Howard Arundel". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant) in v. 1, signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full diced calf; single gilt fillet to form an outer border on boards; blind rolled inner border on boards; five raised bands; gilt and blind tooled spines; red morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Dyer's Cambridge'; spines lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Vol. I[-II].'; gilt rolled corners of board edges; blind rolled turn-ins; blue sprinkled yellow textblock edges; marbled endpapers; dark blue ribbon marker in each vol.
Makers and roles
George Dyer (1755-1841), author John Greig (fl.1800 - 1853), engraver (printmaker)