Songs of the late Charles Dibdin; : with a memoir. / Collected and arranged by T. Dibdin, ... ; with characteristic sketches by G. Cruikshank.
Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)
Category
Books
Date
1864
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260152
Summary
Bibliographic description
Third edition. xxxi, [1], 328 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "8/6 net". Pencil codes on title page verso: "b/t/u" and "h/u". Pencil codes on rear free endpaper: "h/u" and "T/. X". Occasional pencil text marking. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Octavius Yorke Cocks'. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Purple ink-stamp: ‘S.Y. Sapphire.’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf; two set of intersecting double blind fillets to form an outer border on boards; blind stamped cornerpieces: leaves; three recessed cords; five false bands; blind fillets on spine; red spine label, gilt lettered: 'Dibdin's songs.'; gilt stamped spine compartments: leaves; blind rolled board edges and turn-ins; yellow textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Charles Dibdin (1745-1814), author Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841), editor George Cruikshank (London 1792 - London 1878), illustrator Charles Isaac Mungo Dibdin (1768-1833), author