The Fenland, past and present / by Samuel H. Miller, ... and Sydney B. J. Skertchly, ... Illustrated with engravings, maps and diagrams.
Miller, Samuel H
Category
Books
Date
1878
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3036971
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxxii, 649, [1] p., [28] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (1 col.), maps (part fold.), 2 fold. tables ; 27 cm (8vo.). Imperfect: wanting plate of Swan's marks (facing p. 369). Pencil price on front pastedown: "27/6". Pencil number on front pastedown: "480". Bookseller's[?] pencil code on front pastedown: "cn + a/d". Bookseller's pencil note on front pastedown: "want plate of "Swan's Mark" / 1 plate repaired". Pencil date on rear pastedown: "5/36". 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: Nineteenth-century full green cloth; double black ruled outer border on upper board; gilt and black blocked illustration on upper board: river and fields; gilt and black lettering on upper board; gilt and black fillets on spine; gilt stamped corn and black stamped reeds on spine; gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Miller, Samuel H, author Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly (1850 - 1926), author