A picturesque tour of the English lakes: . containing a description of the most romantic scenery of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, with accounts of antient and modern manners and customs, and elucidations of the history and antiquities of that part of the country, &c. &c., illustrated with forty-eight coloured views / drawn by Messrs. T.H. Fielding and J. Walton during a two years residence among the lakes.
Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834)
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3086166
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],vi,[2],288 p.,[48] leaves of col. plates . col. ill.. . 4to.. Not indigenous. Meade collection. manuscript annotation verso front free endpaper "Scarce and beautiful. Đ2..10..0. Original watercolour drawings in this copy.". Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Nineteenth century armorial bookplate (unsigned) lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade". Ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library".. Binding: Nineteenth century half vellum; gilt rolls; red title piece on spine, lettered gilt; binder's ticket back pastedown "Aubrey Binder Salisbury".
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade in 1999, and formerly from the library of Sidney Meade (1839-1917), Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.
Makers and roles
Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834) Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding (Sowerby 1781 - Croydon 1851) J. Walton