The history of the Squares of London : topographical and historical / by E. Beresford Chancellor, … ; with thirty-six illustrations.
Edwin Beresford Chancellor (1868-1937)
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101371
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvii, [1], 420 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 8vo. Copy no. 1. Signed by the author. Lacks errata slip. With some duplicate (colour) plates. Ephemera: Three autograph letters (6, 7 and 31 March 1906) from the author, Edwin Beresford Chancellor, loosely inserted: asking for information for the book and thanking the recipient for the information provided. Press cutting from the Morning post (date illegible): article on London squares by Edwin Beresford Chancellor. Bookseller's pencil note, price and code on front free endpaper verso: "50 copies only signed by the author / with 3 A.L.S. inserted / plates in 2 states", "45/-" and "e/en/-". Pencil date on rear free endpaper: "4/37". Pencil code on rear free endpaper: "Lfr". 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, green cloth over boards; brown spine label, gilt lettered: 'The squares of London / Beresford Chancellor'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Edwin Beresford Chancellor (1868-1937), author