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The game of ombre: PB 6-1912

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The game of ombre

Maker(s)

Author: Gibbs, Henry Hucks
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Chiswick Press

Categories

Description

3d ed. (1st edition, 1874.)

London, Printed for private circulation [by the Chiswick Press] 1902

Ix, 133, [1] pages frontispiece, 3 plates (2 color) 28 cm
"To the president and members of the Roxburghe club ... Aldenham."
Charles Brinsley Marlay's copy (name in red in list of members).

Place(s) associated

  • London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

Production date: AD 1902

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 6-1912
Primary reference Number: 199941

Audit data

Created: Monday 24 November 2014 Updated: Thursday 30 June 2016

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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