Charles I. / By Sir John Skelton, K.C.B.
Sir John Skelton (1831-1897)
Category
Books
Date
1898
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085061
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], III, [1], 185, [3] p., plates : ill., ports. ; 4to. Identical title page on either side of half-title. Ephemera: loosely inserted: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price cut out). Pencil number "3080" and pencil tick on front free endpaper verso; pencil number "9831" on rear free endpaper. 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: Early twentieth-century full red morocco; gilt fillets and rolls to form an outer border, with gilt-stamped small fleurs-de-lis in corners; gilt tooled centrepiece: royal coat of arms of Charles I in garter; gilt cornerpieces: crown above rose and thistle; sewn onto five raised bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Charles I' and 'Skelton'; gilt stamped emblem of crown above rose and thistle in spine compartments; double gilt fillet on board edges; elaborate gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edge; cream watered silk endleaves. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1900.'. Binder's device gilt stamped on rear pastedown.
Makers and roles
Sir John Skelton (1831-1897), author