Order Form for Debrett’s Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, 171st Edition (1884), with Specimen Book-Plates

Description

A printed folding order form, issued by Dr. Mair of 6 Batoum Gardens, London, offering subscribers reduced prices on the 171st (1884) edition of Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, together with companion volumes covering the Peerage and Titles of Courtesy, the Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, and the House of Commons and Judicial Bench. The form lists prices ranging from 6s. 6d. for cloth-gilt House of Commons to 30s. for Levant Morocco gilt-edged Peerage, and incorporates a complimentary quotation from Earl Cairns when Lord High Chancellor describing Debrett as "a Depository of Information which I never open without amazement and admiration." The reverse displays four specimen book-plates engraved in the Debrett's style — E Libris Frederici Comitis de Bello Campo (1883), Russborough Library, Thornham Hall, and Sir Henry Gunning, Bart. — available to subscribers gummed at the back at prices from 4s. 6d. per 250.