The chace. :. A poem. /. By William Somervile, Esq;
William Somervile (1675-1742)
Category
Books
Date
1735
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3077630
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 106, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates :. ill. ;. 4to. Accession no. 3769. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: manuscript note by author at head of frontispiece 'Ex dono authoris'. A bookplate on the pastedown is concealed and two others on the verso have been removed. Binding: eighteenth-century English red morocco gilt, decorative roll border, gilt spine with cipher-like tool and a dolphin roll at foot. Lettered directly. Gilt edges, wave-marbled endleaves. The marbled endleaves at the front have been pasted together and this probably conceals a bookplate. Ascribed to T. Elliott on the grounds of the folls used which are listed by Nixon in his 'Harleian bindings',
Makers and roles
William Somervile (1675-1742) Hubert-François Gravelot (Paris 1699 - Paris 1773) Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin (1698-c.1755)