Marrin's Bookshop

Synopsis

Crown jewellers and goldsmiths during six reigns and in three centuries. with some account of the original seat of their business in the haymarket and their new home in albemarle street and grafton street. [spine title:] the story of garrards 1721-1911.

Item Description

8vo. 8..75 x 6 inches. 182 + [2] pp. Title page in red and black. Decorated by title page with vignette and red borders and by red initials. Bound in original red cloth, gilt. Minor wear to extremities, sunning of spine and base of rear board and light spotting of edges; otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by 4 portrait plates, including frontispiece, protected by tissue guards and by 36 pages of plates, including photographs, facsimiles and maps, numbered in text. The history of Garrard and Co. Ltd., jewellers, founded in London in 1721, which moved to the Haymarket and adjoining Panton Street in 1735. This title marks the move to new premises in Albemarle Street and also the coronation of George V in 1911, as the company had been crown jewellers since 1843. The business, now owned by a US private equity firm, is still based in Albemarle Street, Chapter include the history of Haymarket, Albemarle and Grafton Streets. Signed at end with initials, A.M.B., i.e. Alexander Meyrick Broadley (1847-1916), barrister, author and book collector, of The Knapp, Bradpole, Dorset.