Animal painters of England from the year 1650 : a brief history of their lives and works / Illustrated with twenty-eight specimens of their paintings, chiefly from wood engravings by F. Babbage ; compiled by Sir Walter Gilbey, ...
Sir Walter Gilbey (1831-1914)
Category
Books
Date
1900 - 1911
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100806
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates : ill. ; 4to. Pencil note on front pastedown in v. 1: "3 vols / scarce". Pencil price[?], erased on front free endpaper verso in v. 1. Pencil codes and numbers on rear pastedown in v. 1: "o/om", "3 vols", "M7-", "253" and "257". Ephemera: loosely inserted in v. 1: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this set (price cut away). Publisher's advertisement flyer pasted onto rear pastedown in v. 1-2. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's orange cloth; gilt stamped head of lion on black cloth onlay on upper boards; gilt lettered upper boards and spines; gilt top edges.
Makers and roles
Sir Walter Gilbey (1831-1914), author Babbage, F, engraver (printmaker)