A suit of armour for youth.
Stacey Grimaldi (1790-1863)
Category
Books
Date
1824
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3246021
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 92 p., [12] leaves of plates ; 12mo. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "Frontispiece + 11 plates beneath slips all coloured". Bookseller's pencil codes on front free endpaper verso (erased) and on rear free endpaper: "X[rectangle].[O crossed through top left to bottom right]O [all underlined] R." Ephemera: loosely inserted: two typescript catalogue cards. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Pencil inscription on front free endpaper verso: "Huttleston from Henry. August 31st. 1948. Anglesey Abbey" [i.e.: to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from his brother Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven (1900-1973)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full sprinkled calf; double gilt fillet to form a border; sewn onto three recessed cords; five false bands; gilt tooled spine; red and black morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'A suit of armour' and 'Stacey Grimaldi'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Wallis'.
Makers and roles
Stacey Grimaldi (1790-1863), author William Grimaldi (1751 - 1830), original artist Cosmo Armstrong (Birmingham 1781 -1836), engraver (printmaker) Wright, Richard Lewis, 1797-1832, engraver (printmaker)