The fables of John Dryden, ornamented with engravings from the pencil of the Right Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerc.
John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Category
Books
Date
1797
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3040756
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], xviii, 241, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; fol. Running number: 7278. Provenance: small oval armorial bookplate (not listed in Franks): anonymous, arms of Harbord impaling Hobart and Drury, with motto "Aequanimiter" [i.e. arms of William Assheton Harbord, 2nd Lord Suffield (1766-1821) and Caroline Harbord, Lady Suffield (1767-1850), daughter of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire; married in 1792]. Binding: eighteenth-century gold-tooled reddish-brown diced calf; sewn onto five recessed sewing supports; gilt Greek key roll pattern border; gilt monogram CH centrepiece on both boards [i.e. Caroline Harbord, Lady Suffield (1767-1850)]; single gilt fillet along board edges; gilt roll pattern on turn-ins; smooth spine; gilt fillet and roll pattern decoration, and titles, on spine. Pale yellow burnished textblock edges. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
John Dryden (1631 - 1700), author Lady Diana Spencer, Lady Beauclerk (London 1734 – Twickenham 1808), photographer Francesco Bartolozzi (Florence 1727 - Lisbon 1815), engraver (printmaker) Ignatius Joseph van den Berghe (Antwerp 1752 – Paris 1824), engraver (printmaker) Thomas Cheesman (1760 – London after 1834), engraver (printmaker) William Nelson Gardiner (Dublin 1766 - London 1814), engraver (printmaker)