To the most noble the Governor, the Bailiffs, and Conservators of the Great Level of the Fens called Bedford Level, this map of the said Great Level and parts adjacent is most gratefully dedicated by Samuel Wells. : Fen Office, 27 March 1829. Register.
Samuel Wells
Category
Maps
Date
1829
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3140326
Summary
Bibliographic description
1 map : col. ; 85 x 83 cm, folded to 22 x 15 cm, in case 23 x 15 cm. Mounted on linen. Provenance: Black ink stamp on front pastedown: 'C.L. Alexander / London / 1844'. Pencil inscription on verso of map: "T.A. Hawkins". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter red morocco case, marbled paper over boards; gilt tooled; red morocco title label on upper board, gilt lettered: 'Bedford Level & parts adjacent'; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Bedford Level'; marbled paper on front pastedown.
Makers and roles
Samuel Wells, commissioner