Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, from the library of J. R. Abbey : a bibliographical catalogue.
John Roland Abbey (1894 - 1969)
Category
Books
Date
1956
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3248015
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. (xiii, 675 p.), plates : ill., facsims. ; 32 cm. Copy no. 92. Ephemera: loosely inserted in vol. 1: invoice, 29 October 1956, from Chas. J. Sawyer, bookseller, London to Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] for the set (price: £25 for the 2 vols. and 6s. postage). Provenance: 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: Twentieth-century full grey cloth; red spine labels; gilt top edges; printed paper dust wrappers.
Makers and roles
John Roland Abbey (1894 - 1969), author