Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales: : being a grand copper-plate repository of elegance, taste, and entertainment. ... accompanied by elegant letter-press descriptions of the several places delineated: ... To which will be added, ... seats of the nobility and gentry ; ... / Published under the inspection of Henry Boswell, ... assisted by Robert Hamilton, L.L.D. and other ingenious gentlemen ...
Henry Boswell
Category
Books
Date
1786
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124238
Summary
Bibliographic description
111 pt. (iv, 42, [506] p., [245] leaves of plates) : ill., maps, plans ; fol. Pencil booksellers' codes on front pastedown: "l/b/" and "ed/". Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "2.2.0". Pencil letter "C" on front free endpaper verso. Date "1786" added in ink at foot of title page. Pencil correction to captions of plates of Dudley Castle: "Staffordshire" crossed through and "Worcestershire" written below. Manuscript addition to list of subscribers: "Mrs. Conyers Astley Castle Warwickshire". Plates numbered by hand in ink, corresponding to manuscript numbers against entries in "Index list of plates ...". Ephemera: scrap of paper used as a marker loosely inserted at entry for Naworth Castle. Provenance: Late eighteenth- / early nineteenth-century armorial spade shield bookplate (Franks 6990): 'Henry Calveley Cotton'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late eighteenth-century full calf; sewn onto six raised bands; gilt tooling on spine; red morocco spine label: 'Boswell's Antiquities of England & Wales'; gilt rolled on board edges.
Makers and roles
Henry Boswell, author Hamilton, Robert, author