Illustrations of British birds, / by H.L. Meÿer ; Vol. 1.
Meyer, H. L
Category
Books
Date
1835 - 1841
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3239282.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 : all col. ill. ; fol. Ephemera: clippings from bookdealer's catalogue about this set (price: £26) and Meyer's 'British birds and their eggs' (1853) (price: £11 11s) pasted onto front pastedown. Pencil notes on bookplate: "313 col'd plates"; "1835-41"; bookseller's code. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Nineteenth-century armorial spade shield bookplate: 'Kingston'. Manuscript inscription on second front free endpaper: "F.C. Kingston the gift of T.P. Smyth Esq. April 28th 1862.". Binding: Nineteenth-centry half green morocco, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; spine gilt, lettered direct: 'Meyer's British birds', 'Vol. I. Land birds.'; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Meyer, H. L, artist