Portraits of rare and curious birds, with their descriptions, from the menagery of Osterly Park, in the county of Middlesex. / By W. Hayes, and family.
William Hayes (1729-1799)
Category
Books
Date
1794 - 1800
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3070732
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([6], 50; [4], 51-101, [1] p.), [101] leaves of plates ; 4to. 2 v. in 1. On large paper. Imperfect: wanting prelims and title page to v.2, pp. 50-51 with accompanying plates and plate of menagerie. Pp. 35-36 and accompanying plates reversed in binding. Pencil price(?) on front free endpaper verso: "10/10/-". Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript catalogue card. Provenance: Nineteenth-century pictorial armorial bookplate (Franks 4318) (anonymous, arms of Bullock, manuscript "J. T. C. Bullock" written below). Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Pencil inscription on front free endpaper verso: "F 1934" [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half straight-grained green morocco, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five recessed cords; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct: 'Menagery of Osterly Park'; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
William Hayes (1729-1799), author