Shelfmark
I.Burrell.025
Author
Title
English book-plates : an illustrated handbook for students of ex-libris / by Egerton Castle.
Varying form of title
Half-title: English bookplates : (ex-libris)
Publication, distribution, etc.
London ; New York : G. Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, Mdcccxcij [1892].
Physical description
xiii, [3], 249, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., plates., front., plates, port. ; 20 cm.
Note
"Bibliography of English book-plates": p. [233]-239.
Note
"This edition consists of 935 ordinary copies Imperial 16mo, and 65 numbered copies on Japanese vellum, Demy 8vo"--Verso of half title.
Note
Later published under the title: English book-plates ancient and modern.
Provenance
Bookplate recording donation to ECL by Joseph Frederick Burrell in 1983.
Provenance
Pictorial bookplate of Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas, Seventh Duke of Newcastle.
Binding
Late 19th/early 20th century red leather half-binding; marbled paper covered boards; gilt top-edge; marbled endpapers; five raised bands with five flowers stamped adjacent on upper and lower covers; gilt lettering on spine.
Subject
Bookplates, English.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Newcastle, Henry Pelham-Clinton, 1864 - 1928 former owner.
Added entry--name
George Bell & Sons publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B46097