Select views of London; : with historical and descriptive sketches of some of the most interesting of its public buildings. / Compiled and arranged by John B. Papworth ...
John Buonarotti Papworth (1775 - 1847)
Category
Books
Date
1816
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100860
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 159, [1] p., [76] leaves of plates (5 folded) : col. ill. ; 4to. Bookseller's pencil note on rear free endpaper: "om/-/- 8396". Bookseller's ticket on rear free endpaper: 'Robson & Co., 7, Hanover Street, W.1.' with red ink-stamp: 'Collated perfect.' and manuscript initials and date: "R.C.C. 13/6/22". Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript catalogue card. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full straight-grained blue morocco, triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto five recessed cords; five false bands; gilt-tooled spine, lettered direct: 'Select views of London' and 'Papworth'; elaborate gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; crimson endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'R. Wallis. Binder.'.
Makers and roles
John Buonarotti Papworth (1775 - 1847), author Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834) , publisher Augustus Charles Pugin (Normandy c.1762 - England 1832), artist