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 3118561.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2 : facsim. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Pencil letter "N" on front free endpaper verso. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on title page: "Sarah Haberfield 1832.". Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Forrester Britten'. Nineteenth?-century crest sticker on second front free endpaper: 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; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The life of Mrs Jordan.' and 'Boaden / Vol. II.'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers; purple ribbon marker. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Tout Binder'.
Makers and roles
James Boaden (1762-1839), author