A collection of laws which form the constitution of the Bedford Level Corporation: : $btogether with an introductory history thereof. / By Charles Nalson Cole, Esq. ...
Great Britain
Category
Books
Date
1803
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100786
Summary
Bibliographic description
lix, [1], 706 p. ; 8vo. Pencil price and number on front pastedown: "15/-" and "485". Pencil letter and code at the foot of front pastedown: "C" [crossed through] and "b/34". Pencil date[?] and number on rear pastedown: "3/09" and "2049". Pencil note on front pastedown: "Cambridge". Provenance: Manuscript inscription on title page verso: "The Bedford Level Corporation to Richard Greaves Townley Esq Elected Conservator 1787." 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: Early nineteenth-century full calf; blind roll to form an outer border on boards; recessed cords; blind fillets on spine; red morocco spine label, gilt lettered: ‘Cole's Bedford Level’.
Makers and roles
Great Britain , author Charles Nalson Cole (1723-1804), author