English bindings 1490-1940 in the library of J.R. Abbey / edited by G.D. Hobson.
John Roland Abbey (1894 - 1969)
Category
Books
Date
1940
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101389
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 201 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (some col.) ; fol. Copy no. 6 (with additional plate). 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 half brown morocco, tan cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'English bindings 1490-1940 in the library of J.R. Abbey' and 'G.D. Hobson'; gilt top edge. Binder's ink-stamp on front pastedown: 'Bound by S. & S. London' [i.e. Sangorski & Sutcliffe].
Makers and roles
John Roland Abbey (1894 - 1969), author Geoffrey Dudley Hobson (1882-1949), editor