The age of fable, or, Beauties of mythology / by Thomas Bulfinch.
Thomas Bulfinch
Category
Books
Date
1898
Materials
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260372
Summary
Bibliographic description
A new, revised and enlarged edition / edited by Rev. J. Loughran Scott, D.D., with a classical index and dictionary and nearly 200 illustrations. xxiii, [1], 501, [3] p., XIX leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil number on front free endpaper: "21". Provenance: Pencil initials on front pastedown: "UHRB" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Blind embossed stamp on front free endpaper: Broughton family crest with motto 'Si je puis' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth-century full publisher's dark red cloth; black stamped decorative border on upper board and at head and foot of spine; black stamped centrepiece on upper board: figure of the god Mercury; gilt lettering on upper board and spine; black lettering on upper board.
Makers and roles
Thomas Bulfinch, author Scott, J. Loughran, editor