The book of ballads
Bon Gaultier
Category
Books
Date
1903
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3160474
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxxiv, 302 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Former shelfmark: M.3.19. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Printed shelfmark label beneath bookplate: Case [blank] Shelf [blank] "Table" [i.e. a Lyme Park book]. Binding: twentieth-century half-bound blue morocco, with blue cloth over boards; gold-tooled spine, with gilt ram's head crest stamp [i.e. a Legh family book] on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front fly-leaf: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'.
Makers and roles
Bon Gaultier Sir Theodore Martin (1816-1909) Alfred Crowquill William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) Richard Doyle (1824-1883) John Leech (London 1817 - London 1864)