A picture story book, with four hundred illustrations.
Category
Books
Date
1850
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3225639
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],74,80,[3]-77,[1],77,[1],2 p., plates : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm. Priced in pencil: 3/6. Inscribed on titlepage: Sharp Phiz and Col.[?]. Provenance: inscribed on flyleaf: V.H.C. Calke Abbey [i.e. Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th baronet (1846-1924)]; [in separate hand vertically] "Alice Crewe and Vauncey Crewe their book". [i.e. also Alice Georgiana Crewe (1847-1920)]. Binding: green publisher's cloth, gold stamped upper cover urn, blind panel stamp, gold lettered and decorated spine. Binder's ticket at rear: Josiah Westley, London.