The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. / Illustrated by Robert William Billings, architect. 1845-52. In four volumes.
Robert William Billings (London 1813 - Putney 1874)
Category
Books
Date
1852
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3073066.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1, plates : ill. ; 31 cm. Pencil crosses against list of plates. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "4 vols £3.10". Pencil codes on front free endpaper verso: "4[tick] m/v" and "o/i/-". Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (possibly Franks 21343): 'Thomas Munro' [i.e. Sir Thomas Munro, 2nd Bt. (1819-1901)]. 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 half red morocco, red cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; green morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Baronial antiquities of Scotland.' and 'Billings. / Vol. I.'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Robert William Billings (London 1813 - Putney 1874), author