History of Wisbech and neighbourhood, : during the last fifty years - 1848-1898. / By Frederic John Gardiner, F.R.Hist.S. ... ; Illustrated with twenty-four pages of engravings, maps, &c.
Gardiner, Frederic John
Category
Books
Date
1898
Materials
Place of origin
Wisbech
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258282
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 503, [1] p., XXIV leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 8vo. Pencil price and number on front pastedown: "8/6" and "483". Pencil number [date?] on rear pastedown: "07 735". Ephemera: two loosely inserted newspaper cuttings (one from "The Times", undated; one unidentified, dated "1/3/44") on the gift of Bank House, Wisbech [now Peckover House] to the National Trust. 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: Late nineteenth-century full blue cloth; gilt stamped coat of arms of the town of Wisbech on upper board; gilt lettered upper board and spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Gardiner, Frederic John, author