Fenland notes & queries : a quarterly antiquarian journal for the Fenland, in the counties of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Lincoln, Northampton, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
W. H. Bernard Saunders
Category
Books
Date
1891 - 1909
Materials
Place of origin
Peterborough
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101352
Summary
Bibliographic description
7 v. : ill., coats of arms, maps, plans, ports. ; 8vo. Holdings: v. 1-7. Pencil checkmarks against items in list of errata in v. 2-3 and pencil checkmark on errata slip in v. 6, signifying pencil corrections made to text. Pencil correction to text on p. 188 in v. 6. Ephemera: loosely inserted: in v. 1: manuscript list of references to Peterborough; v. 2: scrap of paper used as a marker at p. 164; v. 3: sheet of pencil notes and page references in the hand of Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) at p. 202; v. 5: two sheets of pencil notes in the hand of Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966); v. 6: scrap of paper with pencil notes in the hand of Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966); v. 7: scrap of paper with pencil notes in the hand of Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) at p. 296. 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: Late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century quarter dark green morocco, green cloth over boards; quadruple blind fillet (one thick, three thin) to form an outer border on boards; gilt fillets and tooling on spines; spines lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Fenland notes and queries / Vol. I[-VII].'; gilt top edges. Blind stamped on lower boards: 'Patent split case binding'. Binder's ink stamp on rear pastedowns: 'Stronghold split case trade mark regd.'
Makers and roles
W. H. Bernard Saunders, editor Walter Debenham Sweeting (1839-1913), editor