The life of George Brummell, Esq., commonly called Beau Brummell / by Captain Jesse … ; with forty portraits in colour of Brummell and his contemporaries.
Captain William Jesse (1809-1871)
Category
Books
Date
1886
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3248099
Summary
Bibliographic description
Revised and annotated edition from the author's own interleaved copy. 2 v., plates : col. ill. ; 4to. Copy no. 59. Pencil number "257" on rear pastedown in vol. 1; pencil page references on rear pastedowns in both vols. 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: Late nineteenth-century quarter grey cloth; blue cloth over boards; recessed cords; printed paper title label on spines.
Makers and roles
Captain William Jesse (1809-1871), author