Memorials of Cambridge / by Charles Henry Cooper.
Charles Henry Cooper (1808-1866)
Category
Books
Date
1860 - 1866
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101617
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates : ill., coats of arms, plan ; 4to. Large paper copy. Bookseller's pencil notes on front pastedown of vol. 1: "3 vols LP copy 2/2/-"; further note obscured by bookplate. 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: Nineteenth-century half red morocco, red cloth over boards; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper boards: coat of arms of the city of Cambridge; recessed cords; gilt tooled spines, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Memorials of Cambridge / Vol. I[-III.]'; gilt top edges. Binder's ticket on rear pastedown of vol. 1: 'Bound by Leighton Son and Hodge'.
Makers and roles
Charles Henry Cooper (1808-1866), author Harry Longueville Jones (1806-1870), author John Le Keux (London 1783 – London 1846), engraver (printmaker) Thomas Wright (Tenbury 1810 - London 1877), author