The antiquities of Scotland / by Francis Grose ...
Francis Grose (1731-1791)
Category
Books
Date
1797
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3246755
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([2], iv, xviii, [1], 176 p. ; [2], iv, 140 p.), [79] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 4to. Shelved and uniform with other works by Grose. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso of v. 2: "No 2". Provenance: Nineteenth-century anonymous crest bookplate: greyhound sejant and collared, with crescent [i.e. cadency mark of second son]. 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 full straight-grained red morocco; gilt fillets and roll (palmettes) to form an outer border; sewn onto five recessed cords; gilt tooled spines, lettered direct: 'Grose's Antiquities', 'Scotland' and 'Vol. I[-II].'; gilt rolled at corners of board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins (Greek key pattern); gilt textblock edges; green ribbon marker in each vol.
Makers and roles
Francis Grose (1731-1791), author