A journey to St. Petersburg and Moscow through Courland and Livonia. By Leitch Ritchie, Esq. ... With twenty-five splendid engravings, by the first artists. After drawings by A. G. Vickers, Esq.
Leitch Ritchie (1800-1865)
Category
Books
Date
1836
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3108283
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], iv, [4], 256 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. (12mo.) Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "H. F. Talbot" [probably William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)]. Binding: nineteenth-century full red goatskin[?], blind-embossed with a decorative pattern on the covers; gilt-lettered on spine: 'Heath's Picturesque Annual. 1836'; all edges gilt.
Makers and roles
Leitch Ritchie (1800-1865), author Charles Heath the elder (1785 - London 1848), engraver (printmaker) Thomas Higham (1796-1844), engraver (printmaker) Alfred Gomersal Vickers (London 1810 - Pentonville, Alabama 1837), artist