The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley / by Edward Dowden, LL.D. ... In two volumes.
Edward Dowden (1843-1913)
Category
Books
Date
1886
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3066053.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2, plates : ill., port. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. 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: Late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century full dark blue morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt stamped cornerpieces: flowers; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine with gilt stamped flowers in spine compartments; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The life of Shelley' and 'Dowden / Vol. II. / Extra illustrated'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets and rolls with gilt stamped cornerpieces (leaves) on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; light blue silk endleaves; red ribbon marker. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Root & Son. London.'.
Makers and roles
Edward Dowden (1843-1913) , author