Cathedral cities. : Peterborough with the Abbeys of Crowland & Thorney / drawn & etched by R. Farren.
Edmund Venables (1819-1895)
Category
Books
Date
1889
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085511
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 23, [1] p., [1], 22 leaves of plates ; fol. Shelved and uniform with Farren's 'Cathedral cities: Ely and Norwich' (1883). Large paper copy. Pencil "12/6" on front pastedown. Pencil signature on title page: "R. Farren". Pencil "No. 16" at foot of title page. 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: Late nineteenth-century quarter diced brown calf; olive green cloth over boards; gilt spine title: 'Peter-borough Crowland Thorney R. Farren Cambridge 1889'; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Edmund Venables (1819-1895) , writer Robert Farren (b.1832), artist Robert Farren (b.1832), engraver (inciser)