Fables, and other short poems;. collected from the most celebrated English authors, for the practice and amusement of young gentlemen and ladies; in the art of writing, with alphabets & copies in all the hands now practis'd in Great Britain. ... The whole curiously engrav'd on a hundred copper-plates, by Geo: Bickham junr. and Jno. Bickham.
John Bickham
Category
Books
Date
1731
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3089616
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],32,20,12,23,9 leaves;. 8vo. Former acc. no. 6230. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: flyleaf inscription "John Stockwell 1798". Binding: English calf, c, 1770, gilt flower cornerpieces, gilt spine, red spine label, green and white headbands, green silk tie, combed marble endleaves.
Makers and roles
John Bickham George Bickham the Elder (London 1684 – 1758)