Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain. / By William and Mary Howitt. The photographic illustrations by Bedford, Sedgfield, Wilson, Fenton, and others.
William Howitt (1792-1879)
Category
Books
Date
1862
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085455
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 228 p. : ill. (photographs) ; 4to. 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): 'Ruined abbeys & castles.' and 'Howitt.'; gilt textblock edges; 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 Francis Bedford (1816 - 1894), photographer Roger Fenton (1819 - 1869), photographer Mary Botham Howitt (1799-1888), author William Russell Sedgfield (1826-1902), photographer George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893), photographer