The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham Huse, and Frogmore. / By W.H. Pyne. Illustrated by one hundred highly finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings by the most eminent artists.
William Henry Pyne (London 1769/70 – London 1843)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Book with calf over boards and gilt for binding; red morocco spine labels
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3022183
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. (v.1: [4], ii, [2], 188, [2], 21, [1] p., [31] leaves of plates; v.2: [6], 88, [2], 28, [2], 88 p., [37] leaves of plates; v.3: [6], 80, [2], 92, 16 p., [32] leaves of plates) : col. ill. ; 4to. Coloured copy. Pencil number "2585" and pencil bookseller's note: "3 vols." with price "38/-/-" on front free endpaper verso of vol. 1. Pencil bookseller's codes (most crossed through) on rear free endpaper in vol. 1. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: Charles Collier, M.D. F.R.S. 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 full sprinkled calf over boards; gilt fillets and tools to form a border and double central panel; gilt spine, edges and inner border; marbled endpapers and textblock edges; rebacked in calf with repairs to sides; red morocco spine labels with title ‘Pyne’s Royal residences’. Typed slip in vol. 3 detailing repairs carried out by N. Pickwoad, May 1985.
Makers and roles
William Henry Pyne (London 1769/70 – London 1843), author