Catalogue raisonné d'une collection generale, de pierres gravées antiques et modernes, . tant en creux que camées, ... moulées ... par Jacques Tassie, ... mis en ordre et le texte rédigé par R. E. Raspe. Orné de planches gravées. ...
James Tassie (Glasgow 1735 - London 1799)
Category
Books
Date
1791
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3049368
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.([8],lxxiv,[2],496,[4],497-800,12,50,13,[3]p.), LVII [i.e. 58] plates ; 4to.. Not identified in the 1768 catalogue. The explanation slip is pasted before the subscribers' list in the Dunham copy. The subscribers' list contains: 'Stamford, The Right Hon. the Earl of' and 'Stamford, The Right Hon. the Countess of' [i.e.: George Harry Grey, 5th earl of Stamford, 1st earl of Warrington (2nd. cr.) (1737-1819) and Lady Henrietta Cavendish-Bentinck, wife of the 5th earl of Stamford (1737-1827)].. Provenance: Bookplate on front pastedown: Armorial, Grey and Booth quarterings, surmounted by an earl's coronet [i.e.: George Harry Grey, 6th earl of Stamford (1765-1845), after assumption of earldom in 1819]; Monogram spine stamp: GW beneath earl's coronet [19th century] [i.e.: George Harry Grey, 6th earl of Stamford and 2nd earl of Warrington (2nd. cr.) (1765-1845)].. Binding: Diced calf; blind ruled and rolled; spine gilt, monogram spine stamp: GW beneath earl's coronet [19th century] [i.e.: George Harry Grey, 6th earl of Stamford and 2nd earl of Warrington (2nd. cr.) (1765-1845)]; uniform with Ruding's 'Annals of the coinage of Great Britain [...]' (London: 1817).
Makers and roles
James Tassie (Glasgow 1735 - London 1799) Rudolf Erich Raspe (1737-1794)