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 3251567.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2, plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Manuscript list (in nineteenth-century hand) of extra-illustrations in both vols. at end. 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)]. 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. II'; 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