Early English furniture & woodwork : vol. I[-II] / by Herbert Cescinsky and Ernest R. Gribble.
Herbert Cescinsky (b.1875)
Category
Books
Date
1922
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3248439
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill. ; 34 cm. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "2 Vols / £3-10-0". Pencil code at foot of front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "o/o/-". Pencil note on front free endpaper in vol. 2: "6 sets only / Original Bdg / £7/7/- [crossed through] / £3/15/-". 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: Early twentieth-century full dark blue morocco; single blind fillets to form an outer and inner border and gilt stamped title and authors' names within panel of single gilt fillets on upper boards; single blind fillet to form an outer border on lower boards; five false bands; gilt fillets in spine compartments; spines lettered direct (gilt stamped) with title, authors' names and vol. nos.; gilt top edges.
Makers and roles
Herbert Cescinsky (b.1875), author Ernest R. Gribble, author