Memorials of St. James's palace / by Edgar Sheppard. In two volumes.
Edgar Sheppard (1845-1921)
Category
Books
Date
1894
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085486
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. 2 v. in 4. Extra-illustrated. Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1, pt. 1. Pencil notes on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1, pt. 1: "2 vols / Extended to 4 / 170 Extra plates. / 4 vols.". Ephemera: loosely inserted in vol. 1, pt. 1: bookdealer's typescript description of this set (price cut out). Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedowns: 'Chas. J. Sawyer, Ltd., / Booksellers, / 23, New Oxford Street, London, W.C.'. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco; double gilt fillet to form a border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spines, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Memorials of St. James's Palace' and 'Sheppard / Vol. I[-II]. Pt. I[-II].'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt top edges; marbled endpapers; red ribbon marker in each vol. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-ins: 'Morrell. Binder.'.
Makers and roles
Edgar Sheppard (1845-1921), author