Diary illustrative of the times of George the Fourth, : interspersed with original letters from the late Queen Caroline, and from various other distinguished persons. In two volumes. ...
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell (1775 - 1861)
Category
Books
Date
1838
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251243
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Pencil number on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "83/37". Other erased pencil marks on front free endpaper verso and rear free endpaper in vol. 1 (illegible). Ephemera: Loosely inserted in vol. 1: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this set (price cut out). Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] in vol. 1. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] in vol. 2. Binding: Late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century full red morocco; triple gilt fillet to form a border; gilt stamped cornerpieces: floral sprays; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spines, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Diary of the times of George IV.' and 'Vol. I[-II]. / Extra illustrated'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; red silk endleaves; red ribbon marker in each vol. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-ins: 'Bound by Root & Son. London.'.
Makers and roles
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell (1775 - 1861), author