[Visitors' book, Windsor Castle, 1855-1856].
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
4 May 1855 - 15 Jul 1856
Materials
Place of origin
Windsor
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100861
Summary
Bibliographic description
[194 p.] ; 4to. Bookseller's pencil notes on front free endpaper: "Visitors Book 1855-1856"; "Windsor Castle" and "a great rarity". Pencil list of significant entries on front free endpaper verso. Ephemera: loosely inserted cutting from book dealer's catalogue describing this item (price clipped out). zProvenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (coat of arms in carved oval frame) with motto ‘Si je puis’ and lettered: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full blue diced morocco; single gilt fillet to form an outer border; blind rolled inner border of palmettes; upper board lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Visitors'; four false bands; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges. In dark blue diced morocco slip-case, gilt lettered: 'The visitors book Windsor Castle / May 4th 1855 -July 15th 1856'.