Visits to remarkable places: : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry: chiefly in the counties of Durham and Northumberland. / By William Howitt, ... Second series. With upwards of forty highly finished wood-cuts from drawings made on the spot for this work, by Messrs. Carmichael, Richardsons, and Taylor.
William Howitt (1792-1879)
Category
Books
Date
1842
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085033
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [1], 610 p. : ill. ; 8vo. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works by Howitt. 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)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half green morocco, green cloth over boards; five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Visits to remarkable places.' and 'Howitt. Second series.'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers; green ribbon marker. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Root & Son'.
Makers and roles
William Howitt (1792-1879), author