(Bindings), Walter Scott: 'Waverley Novels', Edinburgh & Lon...

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£190

(Bindings), Walter Scott: 'Waverley Novels', Edinburgh & London, Cadell & company; Simpkin & Marshall, 1829-1833, 48 volumes, engraved frontispieces and vignette title pages, handsome uniform half brown morocco gilt, marbled paper covered boards, top edges gilt, armorial bookplates of Jeremiah James Colman (1830-1898), English mustard manufacturer and the third member of the family in charge of the eponymous company Colman's. He was a popular philanthropist in his home town of Norwich and a Liberal politician who represented the city in parliament, neat pen & ink inscription (not recent) verso of FFEP in each volume "This book was at The Clyffe, Corton, prior to 1898, and was bought by E.M.C. and H.C.C. at the sale in 1917". Clyffe House, Corton, Lowestoft, Suffolk, was purchased by Jeremiah James Colman in 1869 as a second residence for his family. The house was enlarged in 1874 and Jeremiah and his son, Russell purchased more land in Corton, Blundeston, Flixton, Gunton, Hopton and Lound, most of which was bought from the Fowler family of Gunton Hall. Jeremiah spent £70,000 on a sea wall in the 1870s to try to prevent coastal erosion but this started to crumble in 1903 and by 1917 'The Clyffe' was in such a dangerous position that the contents of the house had to be sold and the house was partially demolished. The sale took place on 23-27 July 1917, the "E.M.C." referred to in m/s inscription being Ethel Mary Colman (1863-1948), philanthropist who was Lord Mayor of Norwich in 1923–24, notable for having been both the first woman to be Lord Mayor of Norwich, and the first woman to be a Lord Mayor in the United Kingdom. She was the third of six children to Jeremiah Colman and his wife Caroline Colman (née Cozens-Hardy). The "H.C.C." in the m/s inscription being her sister, Helen Caroline Colman (b.1866-d.?), both sisters were sent to study at Miss Hannah Pipe's School for Young Ladies in Clapham Park, London, they went on to become lifelong companions, returning to Norwich and rejoining the social life expected of upper-class young ladies of the time (48)