My life and times / by Nimrod (Charles James Apperley) ; edited with additions by E.D. Cuming ; with illustrations.
Charles James Apperley (1779-1843)
Category
Books
Date
1927
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3249299
Summary
Bibliographic description
xviii, 341, [1] p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. (4 col.), frontis. port (col.), facsims. ; 8vo. (24 cm). Pencil date on rear pastedown: "4/27". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "UHRB. / S.Y. Sapphire. / RY.S / August 1927" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full red cloth; single black fillet to form an outer border on upper board; single blind fillet to form an outer border on lower board; black stamped coat of arms on upper board [a chevron between three pineapples with crest of a pineapple, presumably the arms of Charles James Apperley (1778-1843)]; gilt lettered upper board and spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Charles James Apperley (1779-1843), author Edward William Dirom Cuming (1862-1941), editor Daniel Maclise (Cork 1806 - London 1870), original artist