Shelfmark
Gk.2.11
Author
Title
Memorials of the antiquities and architecture, family history and heraldry of the county of Essex. By the Rev. Alfred Suckling, ... Thirty-four plates and seventy-one wood-cuts..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : John Weale, 59, High Holborn., MDCCCXLV. [1845]
Physical description
[4], 152, [2] p., [34] leaves of plates : ill., (part col.; incl. front.) ; 32 cm.
Note
Title vignette (shield in colors).
Note
First appeared "in a larger work entitled 'Quarterly papers on architecture'".-- Pref.
Note
Col. and tinted lithogr., chromo-xylogr. and 71 cuts.
Note
Title page verso: "London: George Woodfall and Son, Angel Court, Skinner Street".
Provenance
Bookplate of Evelyn Philip Shirley with motto "honor virtutis præmium", undated, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Binding
?18/19th-century quarter-bound morocco in two shades of green over mill/pasteboards. Covers decorated with triple gilt fillets to separate the two leathers. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets and titling ("Suckling's Essex"). Textblock trimmed and gilted. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Essex (England) Antiquities.
Subject
Essex (England) Genealogy.
Added entry--name
Weale, John, 1791 - 1862 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Shirley, Evelyn Philip, 1812 - 1882 former owner.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
George Woodfall and Son printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51308