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 3251567.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1, plates : ill., facsim., ports. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso. Bookseller's pencil notes and codes on front free endpaper verso: "2 vols.", "61 Inserted plates", "Unique copy.", "K/-/-" and "70 W." Pencil numbers on rear free endpaper: "351", "249" and "16380". Ephemera: loosely inserted 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: "F 7". Binding: Nineteenth-century full red-brown calf; double gilt fillet to form an outer border on boards; recessed cords; five false bands; spine gilt; brown and green spine labels, gilt lettered: 'The life of Cardinal Wolsey' and 'Cavendish / Vol. I'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt top edge; brown ribbon marker. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf'.
Makers and roles
George Cavendish (1500-1561), author