Views of country seats of the royal family, nobility, and gentry, of England : in one hundred and forty-six coloured engravings, / after original designs by W. Westall, J. Gendall, and other artists: with particulars, historical and descriptive. In two volumes.
William Westall (Hertford 1781 - St John’s Wood 1850)
Category
Books
Date
1830
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3003584.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2 : col. ill. ; 8vo. "Directions for placing the plates" bound at end of vol. 2 (in vol. 1 in other copies). Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding; Nineteenth-century half Russia calf, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto three recessed cords; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Country seats / Vol. II.'; marbled textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
William Westall (Hertford 1781 - St John’s Wood 1850), illustrator John Gendall (Exeter 1790 - Exeter 1865), illustrator Crouch, William, illustrator William Delamotte (Weymouth 1775 - Oxford 1863), illustrator Hewetson, John, illustrator Shepherd, George Sidney, illustrator Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (London 1793 – 1864), illustrator Stockdale, Frederick Wilton Litchfield, illustrator