A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster, / illustrated with the most interesting views, accurately delineated and executed in aquatinta by Thomas Malton.
Thomas Malton the younger (London 1748 - London 1804)
Category
Books
Date
1792
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3081577.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 ; fol. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "Very rare / One hundred coloured plates". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate large variant, signed Badeley 1930: Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Broughton (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full crimson straight-grained morocco; blind rolled and single gilt fillet to form a border; recessed cords; spine gilt and blind tooled, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Picturesque tour through London and Westminster / Malton / Vol. I / 1792'; single gilt fillet on board edges; single gilt fillet and gilt stamped cornerpieces (flowers) on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Thomas Malton the younger (London 1748 - London 1804), artist