Henry VIII. / By A.F. Pollard, M.A.
Albert Frederick Pollard (1869-1948)
Category
Books
Date
1902
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101724
Summary
Bibliographic description
vii, [1], 302, [2] p., [34] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 34 cm. With two sets of plates. Printer statement on colophon not half-title verso. Copy no.: "Presentation copy" (half-title verso). Bookseller's[?] pencil notes on pastedown "2 vols" and "n/x/[u?]" (other notes erased, illegible). Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "UHRB. / 1927" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century bookplate (not in Franks), initialled W.P.B. [i.e. William Phillips Barrett (1861-1938)]: 'H.J.K.' and 'Poles 1913' [on an open book] with motto 'Semper fidelis' [i.e. Henry James King (1849-1920)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full rose morocco, double gilt fillets to form an outer border on boards; gilt lettering on upper board; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt lettering on spine; double gilt fillet onboard edges; double gilt fillet on turn-ins; lilac watered silk endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Root & Son'.
Makers and roles
Albert Frederick Pollard (1869-1948), author