The story of a soldier' life
Field-Marshall Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD (1833 - 1913)
Category
Books
Date
1903
Materials
Measurements
230 x 154 x 50 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3143445.2
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: machine made wove bulking paper Ink/Pigment: red and blck printing ink, black photogravure ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Case binding, bds & cover Date of Binding: Contemporary Binder's Name: English End Leaves: Tipped single fold machine-made white paper, outer leaf pasted to board Structure: English Edges: top edge plain cut, foredge and tail edge rough trimmed Spine Lining: moderate round, angled joints, glued, lined with paper and mull End Bands: None Bookmark: None Boards: paper boards Covering: finely woven green buckram Tooling Spine: gold blocked thick single fillet and 7-fine line fillet at head and tail, title information horizontally across spine in between Tooling Sides: Back board blank. Same gold blocked fillets at head and tail, with title across upper part of front board only Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes: Signature and gothic bookplate of Anthony Gibbs.
Bibliographic description
v.2., plates . ill., maps, ports. . 8vo.. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: "Antony Gibbs Tenax Propositi" [i.e. Antony Gibbs (1841-1907); family motto]. - Ms on pastedown: "Antony Gibbs".. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full green cloth; gold-tooling on spine and left board.
Makers and roles
Field-Marshall Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD (1833 - 1913)