Notes & Queries 1874 5th Series Vol II | R.J. Fynmore Extra-Illustrated Archive

Condition: Overall good, please read description below for details and look carefully at the photographs. | Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, etc. Fifth Series?Volume Second (July?December 1874). London: Office, 20 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C., by John Francis, 1874. R. J. Fynmore's copy, extra-illustrated and annotated with a substantial dossier of tipped-in newspaper cuttings, engravings, and manuscript notes spanning the 1830s?1950s. 3/4 leather over marbled boards; marbled endpapers. Condition. Front and rear joints cracked and fragile but boards holding; spine with losses to leather and title plates. Edges and corners rubbed with shelf wear. Internally secure and tight; mild foxing and toning throughout . Clippings, correspondence, and MS notes are clean, legible, and firmly affixed . Overall good . Provenance. R. J. Fynmore (the Folkestone antiquary and indefatigable contributor/reader of N&Q ), with his characteristic marginal foliation, subject headings, and cross-references. This copy functions as a working reference file?an "index rerum" in the best Victorian tradition?linking N&Q queries to primary press sources, local history, heraldic anecdotes, and London topography. Scope & Highlights (selection from the mounted material) Northumberland House & the Northumberland Lion : façade and gateway engravings; note of the lion's removal to Syon House (Times, 1920). Holland House : large engraving "in 1795" (Times, Dec. 30, 1953). Charterhouse / Thomas Sutton : founder's embalming and funeral pageant; 1951 tablet at Knaith? | Offered by Booking33 ? rare, antiquarian & collectible books. Carefully packed; insured shipping available.…