Rambles round Eton and Harrow / by Alfred Rimmer ... ; with fifty-two illustrations.
Alfred Rimmer (1829-1893)
Category
Books
Date
1882
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124600
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xi, [1], 290, [2] p., plates : ill. ; 8vo. Press copy with original watercolours. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "34 Orig. Drawings". Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso. Pencil checkmarks against list of illustrations. Ephemera: loosely inserted bookdealer's typescript description of this copy (price: £60). Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (coat of arms in carved oval frame) with motto ‘Si je puis’ and lettered: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth-century full green morocco, triple gilt fillet to form a border; recessed cords; five false bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Rambles round Eton and Harrow / Rimmer / with original drawings'; gilt rolled board edges; double gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Frost & Co. Bath, England'.
Makers and roles
Alfred Rimmer (1829-1893), author