Military antiquities : respecting a history of the English army, from the conquest to the present time. / By Francis Grose, ...
Francis Grose (1731-1791)
Category
Books
Date
1812
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3246756
Summary
Bibliographic description
A new edition with material additions & improvements. 2 v., [141] plates : ill. ; fol. Shelved and uniform with other works by Grose. Provenance: Pencil inscription on second front free endpaper verso in v. 1: "Lowe". 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', 'Military' and 'Vol. I[-II].'; gilt rolled at corners of board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins (Greek key pattern); gilt textblock edges (earlier marbling visible on fore-edges); green ribbon marker in each vol.
Makers and roles
Francis Grose (1731-1791), author