Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall; : or, A ramble from the Haymarket to Hyde Park. Consisting of a retrospect of the various changes that have occurred in the court end of London. / By Henry B. Wheatley.
Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838 - 1917)
Category
Books
Date
1870
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3252101
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix, [1], 405, [1] p., plates : ill., plan ; 8vo. 1 v. in 2. Extra-illustrated. Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1. Pencil notes on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "1 vol extended to 2 vols / by the insertion of 103 extra plates / rare engraved views & portraits / of celebrities." and "2 vols". Pencil number "185" on rear free endpaper in vol. 1. Ephemera: loosely inserted in vol. 1: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price: £25). Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's gilt stamp on front turn-ins: 'C.J. Sawyer Ltd. 12 Grafton St. W.'. Binding: Twentieth-century full dark red morocco; triple gilt fillet to form a border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spines, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall' and 'Wheatley / I[-II]'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edges; grey endpapers. Bookseller's gilt stamp on front turn-ins: 'C.J. Sawyer Ltd. 12 Grafton St. W.'.
Makers and roles
Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838 - 1917), author