The antiquarian repertory: : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners. Intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. / Chiefly compiled by, or under the direction of, Francis Grose, Esq. F.R. & A.S; Thomas Astle, Esq. F.R. & A.S.; and other eminent antiquaries. Adorned with numerous views, portraits, and monuments. ...
Thomas Astle (1735-1803)
Category
Books
Date
1807
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3073942.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1, plates : ill. ; 4to. Large paper copy? (Ht 37 cm, gt 5 cm). Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half straight-grained green morocco, green paper over boards; recessed cords; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Antiquarian repertory' and 'Vol. I.'; green endpapers; dark blue ribbon marker; uncut edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Astle (1735-1803), compiler Francis Grose (1731-1791), compiler Edward Jeffery, publisher