Glig-gamena angel-eod. Or, the sports and pastimes of the people of England: : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time. Illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings; ... / By Joseph Strutt.
Joseph Strutt (Chelmsford 1749 - London 1802)
Category
Books
Date
1801
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3054161
Summary
Bibliographic description
l, [6], 301, [1] p., [1], xxxix leaves of plates : ill. ; 4to. Booksellers' pencil notes and codes on front free endpapers: "£3.3-0"; "a/pa/-"; and "Fine Paper - Coloured plates". Provenance: Late eighteenth- / early nineteenth-century armorial spade shield bookplate (Franks 3772): 'Theod. H. Broadhead' [i.e. Theodore Henry Broadhead (1714–1810)]. 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 red straight-grained morocco; double gilt fillet (thick and thin) to form an outer border; sewn onto recessed cords; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Strutt's Sports & Pastimes'; gilt rolled board edges; gilt fillets and roll on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; blue ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Joseph Strutt (Chelmsford 1749 - London 1802), author