Versailles, Paris, and Saint Denis; : or a series of views from drawings made on the spot. / By J.C. Nattes, illustrative of the capital of France, and the surrounding paces. With an historical and descriptive account.
John Claude Nattes (Ireland? c.1765 - London 1839)
Category
Books
Date
1810
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085762
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 86 p., 40 leaves of plates ; fol. Large paper copy. Pencil number on rear free endpaper: "9643". Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript description of this copy. Provenance: Nineteenth-century anonymous crest bookplate (not in Franks) with cipher 'DC'[?] [crest is ram's head with coronet of an earl, i.e. Lambton family, Earls of Durham]. 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: Early nineteenth-century half diced calf, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five recessed cords; six false bands; spine gilt tooled, lettered direct: 'Versailles Paris and St. Denis'.
Makers and roles
John Claude Nattes (Ireland? c.1765 - London 1839), artist L. J. Gerard, author John Hill (London 1770 - Clarksville, USA 1850), aquatinter