The lot book of the Bedford Level Corporation; : with the orders as to the tax and arrear rolls, etc. etc. / corrected to November, 1840, by Samuel Wells, Esq., Register of the Corporation.
Bedford Level Corporation
Category
Books
Date
1841
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257860
Summary
Bibliographic description
112 p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map ; 24 cm. Pencil price and number on front pastedown: "6/-" and "485". Bookseller's pencil note and price (in a different hand): "Rare 12.0". Pencil date on rear pastedown: "7/37". Ephemera: loosely inserted catalogue of exhibition: "Old maps of Wisbech and the Fenland", held at Peckover House, Wisbech, 22-27 November 1954. 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: Nineteenth-century full dark green cloth; gilt tooled title on upper board: 'Lot book of the Bedford Level.' Some uncut leaves.
Makers and roles
Bedford Level Corporation, author Wells, Samuel, Esq, editor