The seats of the nobility and gentry : in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views, / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists. With descriptions of each view.
William Watts (London 1752 - Cobham 1851)
Category
Books
Date
1779 - 1786
Materials
Place of origin
Chelsea
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3061692
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 4, [170] p., lxxxiv plates : ill. ; obl. 4to. Imperfect: wanting list of subscribers. Pages of original volume cut out and pasted into folio album with plate at head of page and descriptive text below (both within ruled borders). Pencil number "1407" on front free endpaper verso; pencil number "4" on rear free endpaper verso. Pencil "X" on second front free endpaper. Ephemera: typescript catalogue card loosely inserted. Provenance: Nineteenth-century spade shield armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'James Milnes'. Nineteenth?-century seal armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Charles George Milnes Gaskell'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late eighteenth-century full straight-grained green morocco with gilt rolled red and blue morocco borders to form a panel design; decorative gilt cornerpieces; blue morocco spine compartments with strips of red morocco, all elaborately gilt tooled; red morocco spine label, gilt lettered: 'Watts's Views'; gilt rolled board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins (Greek key pattern and acorns); gilt textblock edges; pink endpapers. Binder's ticket on verso of front free endpaper: 'Bound by L. Staggemeier and Welcher London'.
Makers and roles
William Watts (London 1752 - Cobham 1851), engraver (printmaker)