The ruined abbeys of Britain. / By Frederick Ross, F.R.H.S ; illustrated with coloured plates and wood engravings from drawings by A.F. Lydon.
Frederick Ross (1816-1893)
Category
Books
Date
1882
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3126126.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 (viii,1-148 p., [6] leaves of plates) : ill. (some col.), plans ; fol. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "2 vols 25/-". Pencil bookseller's code[?] at head of front free endpaper verso: "p/s". Provenance: 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: Late nineteenth-century full publisher's dark green cloth; decorative device in gilt, red and black on upper board; gilt lettered title on upper board and spine; blind stamped panel design on lower board; recessed cords; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Frederick Ross (1816-1893), author Alexander Francis Lydon (1836 - 1917), original artist