A tour through Sicily, in the year 1815 / by George Russell, of His Majesty's office of works. Illustrated by a map and eighteen interesting plans and views.
George Russell
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101410
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, [2], 289, [1] p.,plates (some folded) : ill.. maps ; 8vo. Pencil number "10461" and pencil codes on rear free endpaper. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: 'Ingalton, Bookseller & stationer, Eton'. Binding: Nineteenth-century full red straight-grained morocco; gilt and blind fillets and tools to form an outer border; spine gilt, lettered direct 'Tour through Sicily'; five false bands; three recessed cords; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; pink silk ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
George Russell, author J. Clarke (1789-1830), engraver (printmaker)