The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant / by G.E.C.
George Edward Cokayne (1825-1911)
Category
Books
Date
1910 - 1949
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251829
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition, revised and much enlarged / edited by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs. 13 v. in 14 : geneal. tables ; 4to. Imperfect: wanting vol. 12. Ephemera: loosely inserted press cutting in vol. 1: review of the work, after the first 7 vols. had been published [i.e. 1929]. 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)] in vols. 1-9, and 13. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (coat of arms in carved oval frame) with motto ‘Si je puis’ and lettered: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] in vols. 10-11. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's green cloth; double gilt fillet to form an outer border on upper boards; gilt lettered upper boards and spines; gilt stamped coronet above title on upper boards; gilt top edges.
Makers and roles
George Edward Cokayne (1825-1911), author Vicary Gibbs (1853-1932), editor Herbert Arthur Doubleday (1867-1941), editor Warrand, Duncan, editor Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron, editor White, Geoffrey H, editor