Voyage en Angleterre, / par Eug. Lami et H. Monnier.
Henry Bonaventure Monnier (1799-1877)
Category
Books
Date
1829 - 1830
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101287
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 pts. ; fol. Bound in 1 v. Includes an additional plate "Club de Fermiers" not listed in the letterpress descriptions. Ephemera: (1) clipping from book dealer's catalogue describing this copy, price: £68; (2) typescript catalogue card. Booksellers' pencil notes on front free endpaper verso: "25 Plates. Original wrappers at end" and on second front free endpaper: "Lithos coloriés par Monnier et Lami. 25 planches au lieu de 24 que comportent en exemple ordinaries. Couvertures". Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso. 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 quarter brown straight-grained morocco, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto four raised bands; spine gilt-tooled, letter direct: 'E. Lami H. Monnier / Voyage en Angle-terre'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Original wrappers bound in at end. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'P.L. Martin'.
Makers and roles
Henry Bonaventure Monnier (1799-1877), artist Eugène Louis Lami (Paris 1800 - Paris 1890), artist François Le Villain (1798-1884), lithographer