The history of the drainage of the great level of the Fens, called Bedford Level; : with the constitution and laws of the Bedford Level Corporation. / By Samuel Wells, Esq., Register of the Corporation.
Samuel Wells
Category
Books
Date
1830
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101128
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. (xvii, [1] ,832; xxii, 802 p.) ; 8vo. 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: Twentieth-century half red morocco, red cloth over boards; recessed cords; five raised bands; gilt panelled spines, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The drainage of the Bedford Level', 'I[-II]', 'Wells' and '1830'; gilt top edges; pink endpapers.
Makers and roles
Samuel Wells, author Bedford Level Corporation, author