Rachel Ruysch, 1664-1750 / by Colonel M.H. Grant.
Rachel Ruysch (Amsterdam 1664 – Amsterdam 1750)
Category
Books
Date
1956
Materials
Place of origin
Leigh-on-Sea
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101284
Summary
Bibliographic description
[v]-xvii, [1], 19-45, [3] p., 46 leaves of plates (some col.) : ill. ; 4to. Copy no. 192. Ephemera: loosely inserted letter to "Huttleston" from "Henry & Joy", August 26th, 1956, sending the book as a birthday gift [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from his brother, Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven (1900-1973)]. 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 full publisher's green cloth; gilt stamped title on upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
Rachel Ruysch (Amsterdam 1664 – Amsterdam 1750), artist Maurice Harold Grant (b.1872), author