A topographical history of Surrey / by Edward Wedlake Brayley ... ; revised and edited by Edward Walford ... ; with numerous illustrations on steel and wood.
Edward Wedlake Brayley (1773 - 1854)
Category
Books
Date
1878 - 1881
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3113567
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v., plates : ill., maps ; 4to. Booksellers' notes in pencil on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "4 vols. £3-0.-0." and [in a different hand]: "4 vols 4/4/-". Provenance: pencil note on front pastedown in vol. 1: "Fairhaven Park Close February 1931" [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. 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 maroon morocco, brown cloth over boards; recessed cords; five false bands; spines gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'History of Surrey. Brayley & Walford. I[-IV].'; gilt top edges; patterned endpapers (floral design).
Makers and roles
Edward Wedlake Brayley (1773 - 1854), author Edward Walford (1823 - 1897) , editor E. W. Brayley (1802-1870), author John Britton (Kington St Michael 1771 – London 1857), author Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852), author Thomas Allom (Lambeth 1804 - Barnes 1872), illustrator