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 3251226.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
pp. 243-578, plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Additional printed title page. Ephemera: loosely inserted: 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 spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'English eccentrics and eccentricities' and 'Timbs / Vol. II. / Extra illustrated'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; tan silk endleaves; red ribbon marker. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Root & Son, London.'.
Makers and roles
John Timbs (1801-1875), author