Poetical sketches of Scarborough: / illustrated by twenty-one engravings of humorous subjects, coloured from original designs made upon the spot by J. Green, and etched by T. Rowlandson.
William Combe (1742-1823).
Category
Books
Date
1813
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101008
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], xv, [1], 215, [1] p., 21 leaves of plates ; 8vo. Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript catalogue card. Provenance: Nineteenth-century seal armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Herbert Henry Raphael' [i.e. Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt (1859-1924)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's pencil notes on front pastedown: "first Edn. uncut £5-5- 571" and on rear pastedown: "in/CS/-"[?] .Binding: Nineteenth-century full blue morocco, gilt roll and double gilt fillet to form an outer border; five raised bands; gilt-tooled spine, lettered direct: 'Poetical sketches of Scarborough'; elaborate gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edge; red ribbon marker. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in;: 'Bound by J. Larkins'.
Makers and roles
William Combe (1742-1823)., author John Bluck (fl.1791 - 1831), engraver (printmaker) James Green (Leytonstone 1771 - Bath 1834), artist John Buonarotti Papworth (1775 - 1847), author Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756 – London 1827), engraver (printmaker) Stadler, Joseph Constantine, engraver (printmaker) Francis Wrangham (1769 - Chester 1842), author