[Drawings of monastic seals].
Bartholomew Howlett (Louth 1767 – Newington 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1821 - 1822
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085298.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 : all ill. ; fol. Pencil notes on front free endpaper: "16 vols £190" and (in a different hand): "In 1860 £190 / realized at a London Auction / Sotheby". Pencil note in another hand on second front free endpaper verso: "298 / 16 vols £190". 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: Nineteenth-century full green morocco; gilt fillets and roll to form an outer border; recessed cords; five false bands; gilt tooled spine; red spine labels: 'Drawings of monastic seals.' and '1.'; double gilt fillet on board edges; triple gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by J. Mackenzie'.
Makers and roles
Bartholomew Howlett (Louth 1767 – Newington 1827), artist