The beauties of England and Wales; or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each county. Embellished with engravings. / By John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley.
Francis C. Laird
Category
Books
Date
1814
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3054291.26
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 15i, pp. [1]-402 (Worcestershire) : ill. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Manuscript attribution to "F.C. Laird" on title page. Provenance: Nineteenth-century shared book label of John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols, and John Gough Nichols [i.e. belonged to John Nichols (1745-1826), and his son and grandson John Bowyer Nichols (1779-1863) and John Gough Nichols (1806-73)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Broughton (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half leather binding; marbled paper sides; rebacked in calf, with new calf corners; gilt spine title ‘Beauties of England. … Extra illustrated’; five raised bands.
Makers and roles
Francis C. Laird, author