Delineations of Fonthill and its abbey. / By John Rutter, ...
John Rutter (1796-1851)
Category
Books
Date
1823
Materials
Place of origin
Shaftesbury
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3069854
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxvi, 127, [1] p., XIII leaves of plates (some col.) : ill. ; 4to. Large paper copy. Pencil number "1516" on front pastedown. Ephemera: Printed slip tipped in, advertising marked-up catalogues of the Fonthill sale, available from J. Rutter, Shaftesbury. 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 price note: £2-2-0. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter green morocco, original printed drab boards; recessed cords; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Fonthill Abbey by J. Rutter'.
Makers and roles
John Rutter (1796-1851), author