Thornton's temple of Flora : with plates faithfully reproduced from the original engravings / and the work described by Geoffrey Grigson, with bibliographical notes by Handasyde Buchanan.
Robert John Thornton (1768-1837)
Category
Books
Date
1951
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3098255
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 20 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; fol. Copy no. 115. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half brown morocco, blue-grey paper over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt): 'Thornton's Temple of Flora'; gilt top edge. In original grey-green slip case with pink printed label and black-lettered edge.
Makers and roles
Robert John Thornton (1768-1837), author Handasyde Buchanan, editor Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985), editor William Thomas Stearn (1911-2001) , editor