The antiquarian and topographical cabinet : containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain.
John Greig (fl.1800 - 1853)
Category
Books
Date
1817
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100825.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 : ill. ; 8vo. Booksellers' pencil notes, codes and prices in various hands on front free endpaper verso: "Large Paper Copy"; "One of the very few copies printed / entirely on plate paper, on one side only, / with the engravings placed on top of / the pages."; "6 Vols / e/y/- / £2/5/-"; "6 Vols / 35/-"; "C97" and "en/-/-". Provenance: Eighteenth-century Chippendale armorial bookplate (Franks 12762): 'George de Ligne Gregory' [i.e. George de Ligne Gregory (1740-1822)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full diced calf; gilt and blind rolls to form an outer border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; black morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Antiquarian cabinet' and 'Vol. I'; gilt edge rolled; blind rolled turn-ins; brown sprinkled textblock edges; marbled endpapers; brown ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
John Greig (fl.1800 - 1853), engraver (printmaker) James Sargant Storer (Cambridge 1771 - London 1853), engraver (printmaker)