A year in the Punjab frontier in 1848-49.
Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes (1819 - 1868)
Category
Books
Date
1851
Materials
bookcloth, paper
Measurements
230 x 149 mm; 53 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3064278.2
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: machine-made wove paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink, inscription in manuscript ink and pencil on half-title Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Case binding, bds & cover Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: British, ‘Bound by Remnant & Edmonds. London’ (ticket inside right board|) End Leaves: tipped single fold of dark blue coated paper, the outer leaf pasted to the board. Structure: British Edges: uncut at head, rough trim on fore- and tail edges Spine Lining: moderate round, angled joints, overall lining of mull under a continuous lining of printed paper End Bands: None Bookmark: None Boards: 2mm rope-fibre boards Covering: full red fine-ribbed bookcloth Tooling Spine: missing. Tooling Sides: blind-blocked ornamental frame (rifles left and right, cannon below and sabres above) , with on thel eft board a gold-blocked vignette of a Punjabi horseman beside a palm tree in the centre. and in the centre of the right board 4 lines of gold-blocked Arabic script. Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes: Leaving present to G. O. Trevelyan from Mr Seawell
Bibliographic description
v.2.,plates . ill..,map . 8vo.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate, lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan.. Binding: Publisher's red cloth boards, decorated in gilt.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes (1819 - 1868)