K.K. Oesterr. Armée nach der neuen Adjustirung.
Category
Books
Date
c. 1837 - c. 1868
Materials
Place of origin
Vienna
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3241838
Summary
Bibliographic description
[25] leaves of plates : all col. ill. ; fol. With engravings of Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria, and Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, bound at the front of the volume. Plate 3 (first sequence) bound in back to front. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "Fine set with the portraits of King Ferdinand I and Prince Carl"; and at the foot of the page [in a different hand] "Austria". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on verso of front free endpaper: 'W.H. Mason, Repository of Arts, 81, King's Road, Brighton'. Binding: Nineteenth-century half green morocco, light green cloth over boards; gilt tooling; green morocco title label on upper board, gilt lettered: 'K.K. Oest. Armee Madame Baily'; recessed cords; gilt fillets on spine; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Robson & Co. Ltd 7, Hanover Street W.1.'.