Shelfmark
Gk.5.20
Author
Title
A collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions &c. in the church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle on Tyne, and chapelries of Gosforth & Cramlington, Northumberland; to which is prefixed, a historical account of the church of St. Nicholas..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Newcastle: : Printed by Edward Walker., MDCCCXX. [1820]
Physical description
2 v. in 1 : ill., coats of arms ; 24 cm.
Note
Pagination: v. 1: xxvii, [1], 90 p. -- v.2: [2], 84 p. and 103 leaves of plates.
Note
Frontispiece is signed: "Drawn by T.M. Richardson", "Lamberl sculp.t".
Note
Engraving on title page is signed: "G. Armstrong sculp.t" (v.1, 2) "T.M. Richardson del.t" (v.2).
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on rear pastedown.
Provenance
Loose bookplate of Julian Boyd between front pastedown and textblock.
Provenance
Loose note between front pastedown and textblock, written by Julian Boyd. It indicates that this volume was "Mr William Dodd's copy ... [who] is still living (January 1882) and is Sec: and Treas. to the Newcastle Antiquarian Society. Bought at his sale Dec. 1881".
Binding
19th-century quarter-bound brown ?morocco and marbled paper by R. Robinson & Co. binders (Newcastle upon Tyne); ticket on front pastedown. Covers decorated with blind roll separating leather from paper. Spine flat, decorated with gilt fillets and titling ("St Nicholas cathedral"; "Armorial bearings -- Vols. 1-2", "1820"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Loose cut out card from invitation to Lord Mayor etc. with unidentified coat of arms.
Copy-specific note
Some coats of arms have been hand-painted.
Subject
Devices (heraldry) England Tyne and Wear.
Subject
Inscriptions England Tyne and Wear.
Subject
Newcastle upon Tyne (England) Heraldry.
Subject
Newcastle upon Tyne (England) Genealogy.
Added entry--name
Walker, Edward, 1767 or 8 - 1831 printer.
Added entry--name
Richardson, T. M. (Thomas Miles), 1784 - 1848 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Dodd, William Antiquarian, former owner.
Added entry--name
Boyd, Julian former owner.
Added entry--place
England Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51362