The fine arts. Forty-eight aquatint colored engravings / by Theodore Fielding, from a work containing forty-eight subjects of landscape scenery, principally views in and near Bath. Painted in oil, by Benjamin Barker.
Benjamin Barker (Pontypool 1776 – Totnes 1838)
Category
Books
Date
1824
Materials
Place of origin
Bath
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100990
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1], 48 leaves : col. ill. (aquatints) ; obl. 4to. Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript description of this copy (price £60.0.0.) on headed paper of 'Chas. J. Sawyer, Ltd., Booksellers'. Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "Fine copy as issued. Very rare". Pencil code on rear free endpaper: "st. ds. q.". 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 half dark blue morocco, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto four raised bands; gilt tooled spine; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Benjamin Barker (Pontypool 1776 – Totnes 1838), original artist Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding (Sowerby 1781 - Croydon 1851), engraver (printmaker)