An historical account of the ancient town and port of Wisbech, : in the Isle of Ely, in the county of Cambridge, and of the circumjacent towns and villages, the drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, the origin of the royal franchise of the Isle of Ely, &c. With engravings. / By William Watson, Esq., F.A.S.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Watson (1771 - 1835)
Category
Books
Date
1827
Materials
Place of origin
Wisbech
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258098
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxvi, 700 p., [21] leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill., maps ; 8vo. Some plates misbound: Wisbech Crescent at p. 132 not p. 111; portraits of Sir H. Peyton's family at p. 515 not p. 526; Emmeth Lodge at p. 526 not p. 530; Beaupre Hall at p. 539 not p. 541. Pencil correction on "Directions for placing the engravings" (p. [xv]), noting actual position of plate of Wisbech Crescent. Pencil note on second front free endpaper above provenance inscription of John R. Jeffery: "See page 269"; pencil annotations on p. 269 identify an Alice Watson named in the text as John Jeffery's daughter [both notes in the hand of Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Manuscript annotations in a nineteenth-century hand at foot of p. 519-522 (trimmed in binding). Pencil price and number on front pastedown: "15/-" and "485". Pencil code at foot of front pastedown: "i/d". Pencil date on rear pastedown: "8/37". Provenance: Manuscript inscription on second front free endpaper: "John. R. Jeffery- / Swaffham / 1832". 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 blue cloth; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Historical account of Wisbech / Watson' and '1827'. Binder's stamp on front pastedown: 'Bound by Maltby, Oxford'.
Makers and roles
Lieutenant-Colonel William Watson (1771 - 1835), author