The history of Crowland Abbey, : digested from the materials collected by Mr. Gough, and published in quarto in 1783 and 1797; including an abstract of the observations of Mr. Essex, respecting the ancient and present state of the abbey, and the origin and use of the triangular bridge. To which is added, an appendix, concerning the rise and progress of the pointed architecture, from the essays collected by Mr. Taylor.
Benjamin Holdich (1770-1824)
Category
Books
Date
1816
Materials
Place of origin
Stamford
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100968
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 182 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil note on second front free endpaper: "1080 [Dents bales?]". Provenance: 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: Nineteenth-century full straight-grained brown morocco; single gilt fillet to form an outer border on boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt fillets and gilt and blind rolls on spine; red spine label, gilt lettered: 'Holdrich's Crowland Abbey'; blind edge rolled; blind rolled turn-ins; brown sprinkled textblock edges; purple endpapers; brown ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Benjamin Holdich (1770-1824), author James Essex (1722-1784), author Richard Gough (1735-1809), author Josiah Taylor (1761-1834), author