The life of Mrs. Jordan; : including original private correspondence, and of numerous anecdotes of her contemporaries. / By James Boaden, Esq. … In two volumes.
James Boaden (1762-1839)
Category
Books
Date
1831
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3118561
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : facsim., port. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Pencil notes on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "117 Extra illustrations / 2 Vols.". Erased pencil notes on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "12...[illegible] illustrations", letter "N" and price (illegible). Pencil note at foot of front free endpaper verso: "CP / AW" [possibly "Collated perfect"]. Pencil notes on rear free endpaper in vol. 1: "S. 11.36 / C. 12.36" [possibly dates of start and completion of reading] and "2 Vols. / /200.". Pencil letter "N" on front free endpaper verso in vol. 2. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on title pages: "Sarah Haberfield 1832.". Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Forrester Britten'. Nineteenth?-century crest sticker on second front free endpapers: dog's head with motto 'Benigno numine'. 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 blue morocco, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; spines lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The life of Mrs Jordan.' and 'Boaden / Vol. I[-II].'; gilt top edges; marbled endpapers; purple ribbon marker in each vol. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso in both vols.: 'Tout Binder'.
Makers and roles
James Boaden (1762-1839), author