The travels and memoirs of Sir John Reresby, ... : The former (now first published) exhibiting a view of the governments and society in the principal states and courts of Europe, during the time of Cromwell's usurpation; the latter containing anecdotes, and secret history, of the courts of Charles II. and James II. Illustrated with forty portraits, ...
Sir John Reresby (1634-1689)
Category
Books
Date
1813
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3086207
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 160, *159-*160, [1], 162-414, [32] p., plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 8vo. Occasional pencil annotations. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "4/10/0". Provenance: Gilt stamped armorial centrepiece on upper board: arms of Baily impaling Addison [i.e. Thomas Farmer Baily (1823-1876)]. Nineteenth-century crest bookplate on front pastedown (not in Franks): 'F.A. Waite'. 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 straight-grained purple morocco; double gilt fillet to form an outer border; blind rolls to form an inner border; gilt stamped armorial centrepiece on upper board: arms of Baily impaling Addison [i.e. Thomas Farmer Baily (1823-1876)]; sewn onto five recessed cords; four false bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Sir John Reresby's memoirs'; gilt rolled corners of board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Sir John Reresby (1634-1689), author