"Ask Mamma", or, The richest commoner in England / illustrated with 13 hand-coloured engravings and many woodcuts by John Leech.
Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864)
Category
Books
Date
1899
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3096499.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 : ill. (some col.) ; 8vo. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works by Surtees. Pencil code and number on front free endpaper verso: "tmss/otr" and "6875". Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper: "11 vols Half levant […]" and "Limited Edition". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's stamp on verso of front free endpaper: 'Brentano's, New York.' Binding: Early twentieth-century half red morocco, red cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Ask Mamma' and 'Surtees / Vol. I'; gilt stamped horseshoes and horse bits in remaining spine compartments; gilt top edge; purple endpapers; red ribbon marker. Binder's stamp on verso of front free endpaper: 'Morrell, Binder, London.'
Makers and roles
Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864), author John Leech (London 1817 - London 1864), illustrator