The book rarities in the University of Cambridge. : Illustrated by original letters, and notes, biographical, literary and antiquarian / by the Rev. C.H. Hartshorne ...
Charles Henry Hartshorne (1802-1865)
Category
Books
Date
1829
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124244
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, 559, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Large paper copy. Extra illustrated. Bound in 3 v. Text in v. 1, first part of v. 2 and in v. 3 within red hand-ruled border. Small ink crosses by entries in 'A catalogue of pictures … ' (v. 3) for which there are prints in v. 1-2. Remains of washed out pencil booksellers' notes on front free endpaper verso in v. 1 (under Lord Fairhaven's bookplate) including "Extra illustrated" and "£45". Ephemera: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy tipped in on second front free endpaper in v. 1, price: £45. Loosely inserted in v. 1: blank form for ordering further catalogues from C. Howes, St. Leonards-on-Sea with manuscript notes on verso listing numbers of different types of illustrations. Scraps of paper used as markers loosely inserted in v. 3. Provenance: Nineteenth-century crest bookplate (Franks 26653): Stephen Sheldon. Nineteenth-century crest and coronet bookplate (Franks 208): Earl of Normanton. 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 full red morocco, gilt tooled panel design on boards; sewn onto five raised bands; spines gilt, lettered direct: 'Book rarities of the University of Cambridge Hartshorne. Vol. I[-III].'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt top edges and fore-edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Charles Henry Hartshorne (1802-1865), author