The gardens of England, / by E. Adveno Brooke.
Brooke, Edward Adveno, 1821-1910
Category
Books
Date
1858
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3245810
Summary
Bibliographic description
[64] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; fol. Pencil note on front pastedown: "1857 26 Col. Plates". Pencil note (price?) on front free endpaper verso: "6/6/-". Pencil ticks (some crosses through) on list of illustrations. Ephemera: loosely inserted: (1) clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price cut out); (2) two typescript catalogue cards. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Fothergill'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter green morocco, green cloth over boards; gilt-stamped centrepiece on upper board: title and author within frame of trellis with vines and roses; gilt rolled near joint edge; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Gardens of England / E.A. Brooke'.
Makers and roles
Brooke, Edward Adveno, 1821-1910, original artist