Highways and byways in Cambridge and Ely / by the Rev. Edwad Conybeare ... ; With illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs.
Conybeare, John William Edward
Category
Books
Date
1910
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3247525
Summary
Bibliographic description
xviii, [2], 439, [1] p., plates : ill., map ; 8vo. (21 cm). Additional prelim. leaf: "This is No. 56 of the Books with Fore-edge Paintings by Miss Currie. The Painting under the gold is a view of Ely Cathedral. Signed C. B. Currie". Pencil notes (erased) on front free endpaper verso: "Fore-edge … by Miss Currie" and "£12-10". Pencil code on rear free endpaper: "N/CS/-". 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)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full straight-grained crimson morocco; elaborate gilt rolls and fillets and blind rolls to form a panel design; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Highways and byways in Cambridge and Ely' and ' E. Conybeare and F. L. Griggs'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges. Fore-edge painting by Miss. C.B. Currie: Ely Cathedral. Binder's stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'.
Makers and roles
Conybeare, John William Edward, author Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs (1878-1938), illustrator