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 3252101.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
p. ix, [1], 1-212 p., plates : ill., plan ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso. Pencil notes on front free endpaper verso: "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. Ephemera: loosely inserted: 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-in: '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 spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall' and 'Wheatley / I'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edge; grey endpapers. Bookseller's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'C.J. Sawyer Ltd. 12 Grafton St. W.'.
Makers and roles
Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838 - 1917), author