Coloured figures of the birds of the British islands. / Issued by Lord Lilford ...
Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford (1833-1896)
Category
Books
Date
1891 - 1897
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101191.3
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 3 : 66 col. ill. ; 8vo. Leaves numbered in pencil. Provenance: Gilt armorial stamp of Samuel Charles Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip (1842-1897) on boards. 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: Late nineteenth-century full brown morocco, triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt armorial stamp of Samuel Charles Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip (1842-1897) on boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct: 'Birds of the British Islands', 'Lilford / Vol. III.' and '1891-1897'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf'.
Makers and roles
Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford (1833-1896), author John Gerrard Keulemans (1842 - 1912), illustrator Alfred Newton (1829-1907), author Osbert Salvin (1835-1898), author Archibald Thorburn (Lasswade 1860 – Godalming 1935), illustrator