English eccentrics and eccentricities. / By John Timbs, … ; with numerous illustrations.
John Timbs (1801-1875)
Category
Books
Date
1875
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251226
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 578 p., plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Bound in 2 v. Extra-illustrated. Additional printed title page for vol. 2. Pencil marks (erased) on front free endpaper verso and rear free endpaper in vol. 1. Ephemera: loosely inserted in vol. 2: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this set (price: £13). 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 brown morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt stamped cornerpieces: floral sprays; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spines, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'English eccentrics and eccentricities' and 'Timbs / Vol. I[-II]. / Extra illustrated'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; tan silk endleaves; red ribbon marker in each vol. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-ins: 'Bound by Root & Son, London.'.
Makers and roles
John Timbs (1801-1875), author