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
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3086167
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], vi, [2], 288 p., [48] leaves of col. plates : col. ill. ; 4to. Ephemera: (1) typescript catalogue card loosely inserted; (2) scrap of paper used as a marker. 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 red morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt rolled inner border of palmettes and fronds; sewn onto four recessed cords; five false bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Tour of the English Lakes / Fielding and Walton', 'Coloured plates'; gilt rolled corners of board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers; dark brown ribbon markers.
Makers and roles
Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834) , publisher Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding (Sowerby 1781 - Croydon 1851), artist J. Walton, artist