Reminiscences of fen and mere / by J.M. Heathcote.
John Moyer Heathcote (1834-1912)
Category
Books
Date
1876
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258202
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 134 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 8vo. Lacks errata slip. Pencil price, number and codes on front pastedown: "5/-", "483", "a" [crossed through] and "b/34". Pencil note on front pastedown: "Plate to face page 8, Peterborough Cathedral, missing". Pencil checkmarks against list of illustrations to show which are present. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on half-title: "Rich. Devereux Jones / from / John Richards. August 1887". Purple ink inscription on front free endpaper: "E.H. Chapman". 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 publisher's green cloth; triple gilt fillet and gilt roll to form an outer border on upper board with small gilt stamped cornerpieces: eight-pointed stars; triple blind fillet and blind roll to form an outer border on upper board with small blind stamped cornerpieces: eight-pointed stars; gilt lettered upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
John Moyer Heathcote (1834-1912), author