Annals of Cambridge. / By Charles Henry Cooper, ...
Charles Henry Cooper (1808-1866)
Category
Books
Date
1842 - 1852
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101682
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 v. ; 8vo. Imperfect: wanting vol. 5. Ephemera: loosely inserted in v. 1: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this set (price cut out). Loosely inserted in v. 2: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing extra-illustrated copy of Millers' "A description of the Cathedral Church of Ely" (London, 1807), shelved nearby (price cut out). Scrap of paper used as a marker in v. 4. Pencil number on front free endpaper verso in v. 1: "5211". Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper in v. 1: "V nice set / 4 Vols / H/cm/-". Occasional pencil text marking in v. 1. Pencil page reference on rear pastedown in v. 1: "159 Cambridge". 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: Nineteenth-century half red calf, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto four recessed cords, five false bands; gilt fillets on spines; red spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Cooper's annals of Cambridge'; black spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Vol. I[-IV].'; marbled textblock edges; brown endpapers.
Makers and roles
Charles Henry Cooper (1808-1866), author