The costume of the original inhabitants of the British islands, : from the earliest periods to the sixth century; to which is added, that of the Gothic nations on the western coasts of the Baltic, the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes. / By Samuel Rush Meyrick ... and Charles Hamilton Smith, Esq.
Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783-1848)
Category
Books
Date
1815
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124674
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 59, [1] p., [1], XXIV leaves of plates : col. ill. ; fol. Pencil number on front pastedown: "520". Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript catalogue card and blank sheet of paper. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate large variant, signed Badeley 1930: Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Price on flyleaf: £3-3-. Binding: Nineteenth-century full red straight-grained morocco over boards; elaborate blind and gilt fillets and roll-tools to form a border; spine gilt with title 'Costume. Ancient Britons'; sewn on four raised bands; gilt rolled board edges at corners; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783-1848), author Charles Hamilton Smith (1776-1859), author