A picturesque tour of the island of Jamaica, : from drawings made in the years 1820 and 1821, / by James Hakewill ...
James Hakewill (1778 - London 1843)
Category
Books
Date
1825
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3069470
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 16, [42] p., [21] leaves of plates ; fol. Coloured plates. Pencil number "9133" on front free endpaper verso. Provenance: Affixed to second front free endpaper: twentieth-century coloured pictorial book label lettered 'The Joel Spitz Collection', with portrait lettered 'Mr Henry Alken alias Ben Tally O', and item no. "36" added in ms. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Paper label on final free endpaper with shelfmark: Cabinet [-illegible] 7; shelf 3. Binding: Twentieth-century full purple morocco over boards; gilt fillets to form a border and nested panels; gilt fillets on spine to form panels in spine compartments; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Tour of the island of Jamaica' and 'James Hakewill'; single gilt fillet on board edges; gilt textblock edges; marbled morocco inside boards with gilt roll and fillets to form a border and nested panels; watered red silk endpapers; binder’s stamp of Stikeman & Co., New York.
Makers and roles
James Hakewill (1778 - London 1843), author