History of the University of Cambridge : illustrated by a series of engravings representing the most picturesque and interesting edifices in the University and the most striking parts of the town. / $cFrom drawings by R.B. Harraden, Jun.
Harraden, Richard, 1756-1838
Category
Books
Date
1814
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101127
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 298, [2] p., [35] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., plan ; 4to. Pencil price on front pastedown: "£2/10/-". Pencil code on front pastedown: "th/". Pencil code on front free endpaper: "L/D/X". Pencil marks against some entries in list of engravings and their placements on final leaf and two pencil corrections to the placements. Ephemera: page from bookseller's catalogue listing this copy, price: £2/10/-. 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 half calf, marbled paper over boards; recessed cords; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct: 'Cantabrigia depicta / Harraden'.
Makers and roles
Harraden, Richard, 1756-1838, author Richard Bankes Harraden (1778 - Cambridge 1862), original artist