A picture of St. Petersburgh, represented in a collection of twenty interesting views of the city, the sledges, and the people. Taken on the spot at the twelve different months of the year: and accompanied with an historical and descriptive account.
Mornay, active 1815
Category
Books
Date
1815
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3069087
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 34 p., [1], 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; fol. Coloured copy. "Explication des douze tableaux …" bound as pp.29-30 but paginated as [iii]-iv. Pencil tick and initials "R.M." on front free endpaper verso; pencil number "11350" on rear free endpaper. Bookseller's code in pencil (erased) on rear free endpaper. Ephemera: loosely inserted: (1) book dealer’s catalogue clipping apparently describing this copy, with pencil note S. [Sotheby’s?] K5; (2) typescript catalogue card. Provenance: Belt-and-buckle bookplate (not in Franks) of Charles E. H. Somerset, 1905. 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: Nineteenth-century half red straight-grained morocco, marbled paper over boards; gilt roll on boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine title ‘Picture of Petersburgh’; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Mornay, active 1815, original artist John Heaviside Clark (1770-1863), engraver (printmaker) Matthew Dubourg (fl.1786 - 1838), engraver (printmaker)