Memoir and literary remains of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, bart. / Edited by his son Sir Charles J. F. Bunbury.
Sir Henry Edward Bunbury (1778-1860)
Category
Books
Date
1868
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3086036
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [1], 369, [1] p. ; 8vo. Occasional pencil text marking. Ephemera: Manuscript copies of passages from "Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides" and "Cicero De officiis" pasted onto front free endpapers [in the hand of Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury (1809-1886)]. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on half-title: "Charles J F Bunbury" [i.e. Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury (1809-1886)]. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (Franks 4334): 'Charles James Fox Bunbury' [i.e. Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury (1809-1886)]. 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 full red morocco; gilt fillets and rolls to form an outer border; single blind fillet to form an inner border; sewn onto three recessed cords; five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct: 'Memoir of Sir H.E. Bunbury, bart.'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Sir Henry Edward Bunbury (1778-1860), author Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, bart (1809-1886), editor