Thomas Rowlandson : his drawings and water-colours / by A.P. Oppé ; edited by Geoffrey Holme.
Adolf Paul Oppé (1878-1957)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101223
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 32 p., 96 leaves of plates (some col.) : chiefly ill. ; 4to. Pencil numbers and codes on front pastedown: "2/2/-", "c" [crossed through, underlined twice], "cs 41"; pencil code on front free endpaper verso: "Z/L/N"; pencil code on rear pastedown: "a//a/ /v". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century quarter vellum, grey paper over boards; double gilt fillet (thick - thin) to form an outer border on upper board; blue cloth title label (gilt lettered) on upper board with double gilt fillet border (thin - thick); gilt stamped title on spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Adolf Paul Oppé (1878-1957), author Charles Geoffrey Holme (1887-1954), editor