The Cambrian popular antiquities; : or, An account of some traditions, customs, and superstitions, of Wales, with observations as to their origin, &c. &c. Illustrated with copper-plates, coloured from nature. / By Peter Roberts.
Rev. Peter Roberts (1760-1819)
Category
Books
Date
1815
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100848
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], viii, 360, [4] p., [10] leaves of plates : plan ; 8vo. Pencil number on rear free endpaper: "11376". Historic shelf ticket on rear free endpaper with number in ink: "B III 1". Ephemera: Clipping from bookdealer's catalogue about this copy (price cut out) tipped-in on second front free endpaper. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Pencil initials on front free endpaper verso: "R.M.". Nineteenth-century manuscript inscription on p. [i]: "Chas. Marsden". Pencil note on second rear free endpaper: "Lord Danbury - Howell. May 1922. 1, Vol: (u/90/-.)". Binding: Nineteenth-century full straight-grained maroon morocco; double gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt and blind rolled inner borders; sewn onto three recessed cords; four false bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Roberts's Antiquities of Wales'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Rev. Peter Roberts (1760-1819), author Havell, John, active 1829-1841, engraver (printmaker)