Picturesque views in Devonshire, Cornwall, &c.
Payne, William
Category
Books
Date
1826
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3069088
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18] leaves, XVI leaves of plates ; obl. 4to. Booksellers' pencil notes on front free endpaper verso: "Scarce" and "complete". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven from Henry Anglesey Abbey August 31st 1945" [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from his brother, Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven (1900-1973)]. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown (price scratched out). Binding: Nineteenth-century half straight-grained red morocco, marbled paper over boards; green morocco title label on upper board, gilt lettered: 'Views in Devonshire. &c.'; sewn onto six recessed cords; gilt fillets on spine.
Makers and roles
Payne, William, artist William Pickett (fl.1792-1820), engraver (printmaker)