The autobiography of a stage-coachman / by Thomas Cross ; illustrated with 43 plates by James Pollard, Robert Havell, C. Cooper Henderson, C.B. Newhouse, Thomas Rowlandson, H. Alken and others ; in two volumes.
Thomas Cross (b.1790)
Category
Books
Date
1904
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124598
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 8vo. (28 cm). Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's green cloth; double and single blind fillets to form an outer border on boards; gilt blocked centrepiece on upper boards: stage coach; gilt lettered spines.
Makers and roles
Thomas Cross (b.1790), author Henry Thomas Alken (London 1785 - London 1851), artist Robert Havell the younger (Reading 1793 – 1878), artist Charles Cooper Henderson (Chertsey 1803 – Lower Halliford 1877), artist Newhouse, Charles B., artist James Pollard (Islington 1792 - Chelsea 1867), artist Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756 – London 1827), artist