The life of Cardinal Wolsey. / By George Cavendish, his gentleman usher. And metrical visions, from the original from the original manuscript. With notes and illustrations, by Samuel Weller Singer. ...
George Cavendish (1500-1561)
Category
Books
Date
1825
Materials
Place of origin
Chiswick
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251567
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill., facsim., ports. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Manuscript list (in nineteenth-century hand) of extra-illustrations in both vols. at end of vol. 2. Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1. Bookseller's pencil notes and codes on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "2 vols.", "61 Inserted plates", "Unique copy.", "K/-/-" and "70 W." Pencil numbers on rear free endpaper in vol. 1: "351", "249" and "16380". Ephemera: loosely inserted in vol. 1: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this set (price: £12). Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Ex libris Harrison & Miranda'. Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Historic shelfmark in pencil on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "F 7". Binding: Nineteenth-century full red-brown calf; double gilt fillet to form an outer border on boards; recessed cords; five false bands; spines gilt; brown and green spine labels, gilt lettered: 'The life of Cardinal Wolsey' and 'Cavendish / Vol. I[-II]'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt top edges; brown ribbon marker in each vol. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso in each vol.: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf'.
Makers and roles
George Cavendish (1500-1561), author