The discoverie of the large and bewtiful empire of Guiana / by Sir Walter Ralegh ; edited from the original text, with introduction, notes and appendixes of hitherto unpublished documents by V.T. Harlow, ...
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618)
Category
Books
Date
1928
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251645
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], cvi, 182, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : facsim., maps, port. ; 8vo. Copy no. 50. Additional leaf bound in at front with text: 'This is No. 917 of the Cosway Bindings invented by J.H. Stonehouse, with Miniatures on Ivory by Miss Currie. Signed J.H. Stonehouse Inventor. C.B. Currie Artist.' [The signatures and number "917" are in ink.]. Some leaves uncut. Pencil number on rear free endpaper: "5835". Ephemera: two loosely inserted picture postcards of Hayes Barton, Sir Walter Raleigh's birthplace. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Henry Sotheran, Ltd. 43, Piccadilly.'. Binding: Twentieth-century Cosway binding: full red morocco; miniature of Sir Walter Raleigh (by Miss C.B. Currie) on ivory inset to upper board with border of gilt fillets and roll and gilt tooled flowers and leaves; gilt fillets and roll to form an outer border with gilt-stamped corner-pieces (leaf fronds); five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The discoverie of Guiana by Sir Walter Ralegh' and 'V.T. Harlow'; double gilt fillet on board edges; fore edges of boards gilt-stamped: 'Cosway binding' and 'Invented by J.H. Stonehouse'; gilt fillets and roll on turn-ins with gilt-stamps in corners (flowers and leaves); gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Riviere & Son. London.'. In red cloth-covered slip case.
Makers and roles
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618), author Harlow, Vincent T, editor