Ancient wood & iron work in Cambridge. / By W.B. Redfarn, ... ; the letterpress by John Willis Clark, ...
William Beales Redfarn
Category
Books
Date
1886
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101607
Summary
Bibliographic description
[31] leaves, 28 leaves of plates : ill. ; fol. Pencil price[?] on front free endpaper verso: "10/6". 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)]. Manuscript inscription on second front free endpaper: "C.M.E. Hadfield fr: his father. August. 1887.". Binding: Late nineteenth-century half maroon morocco, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five recessed cords; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Ancient wood & iron work in Cambridge'; red sprinkled textblock edges. Binder's ink-stamp on front pastedown: 'Townsend'.
Makers and roles
William Beales Redfarn, artist John Willis Clark (1833-1910), author