A child's history of England / by Charles Dickens ; with introduction by Andrew Lang ; in one volume ; with illustrations by Hutton Mitchell, E.A. Norbury and F.H. Townsend.
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Category
Books
Date
1898
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3259209
Summary
Bibliographic description
Gadshill edition. xviii, [2], 473, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates : ports. ; 21 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other vols. of Gadshill edition of the works of Charles Dickens (London and New York, 1897-1899). 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 half red morocco, red cloth over boards; five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Dickens / Vol. 30' and 'A child's history of England'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'
Makers and roles
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), author Mitchell, Hutton, illustrator Norbury, Edwin A, illustrator Frederick Henry Townsend (London 1868 - London 1920), illustrator Walter Andrew Lang (1844-1912), editor