The life and times of His late Majesty, George the Fourth : with anecdotes of distinguished persons of the last fifty years. / By the Rev. George Croly, A.M.
George Croly (1780-1860)
Category
Books
Date
1830
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3252086
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 500, lii p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. With typescript alphabetical list of extra-illustrations on 3pp bound in at front. Pencil notes on front free endpaper verso: "100 Ex plates" and "£10.9.0 net". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Life and time of George IV.' and 'Croly. / Extra illustrated.'; double gilt fillet on board edges; triple gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
George Croly (1780-1860)