The beauties of England and Wales; . or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each county. Embellished with engravings. By John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley.
John Bigland (1750-1832)
Category
Books
Date
1801 - 1816
Materials
Measurements
216 x 138 x 35 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 3054286.8
Summary
Full description
Orientation: VerticalText Substrate: handmade wove paper Ink/Pigment: black printing and engraving ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, recessed supports Date of Binding: ContemporaryBinder's Name: EnglishEnd Leaves: construction unclear. 2 flyleaves and one pastedown of plain white wove paper Structure: GermanEdges: plain cut, sprinkled with grey-green pigment, polished Spine Lining: semi-elliptical, quadrant joints, continuous paper(?) linings End Bands: worked, L-R, 2x2 in red and white thread over rolled paper cores Bookmark: NoneBoards: 2.5mm rope fibre boards, back cornered, slips 1 and 3 of 3 only laced in, perpendicularly Covering: full, brown tanned calf, run ‘walnut’ marble with reserved, sprinkled areas Tooling Spine: 8 horizontal gold-tooled 6-line fillets across spine (doubled at tail) with oval neo-classical tool in centres of panels 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Leather lettering piece in panel 2Tooling Sides: gold-tooled hatched roll on board edges Furniture: NoneEnclosure: NoneBinding Notes: bookplate of the Earl of Morley inside front board. The damage to this volume has presumably happened because it deals with Devon.
Bibliographic description
v.8, plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Provenance: Bookplate - Earl of Morley. Binding: Tree calf, gold tooled spine
Makers and roles
John Bigland (1750-1832) Edward Wedlake Brayley (1773 - 1854) James Norris Brewer (fl.1799-1829) John Britton (Kington St Michael 1771 – London 1857) John Evans (fl.1812) The Reverend John Hodgson, MRSL (1779-1845) Francis C. Laird Joseph Nightingale (1775-1824) Thomas Rees (1777-1864) Frederic Shoberl (1775-1853)