Historical record of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, or the Royal Irish Fusiliers : containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1853 / compiled by Richard Cannon … ; illustrated with plates.
Richard Cannon (1779 - 1865)
Category
Books
Date
1853
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3237671
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xix, [1], xi, [1], 100 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "First Edition". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full red morocco; gilt and blind fillets to form a border; decorative gilt cornerpiece stamps; gilt stamped centrepiece: royal coat of arms; title gilt lettered direct on boards: 'Record of the Eighty-seventh Regiment Royal Irish Fusiliers from 1793 to 1855.'; spine gilt with pictorial stamps and title lettered direct; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; green endpapers.
Makers and roles
Richard Cannon (1779 - 1865), author