Ladbrooke's views of the churches in the county of Norfolk.
Robert Ladbrooke (Norwich 1770 – Norwich 1842)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1825
Materials
Place of origin
Norwich
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124464.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 : all ill. (lithographs) ; 4to. Pencil note in the hand of Ernest Shorting on the birthplace of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758-1805). Occasional pencil corrections (in a different hand) to captions. Ephemera: loosely inserted: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this set (price cut out). Provenance: Manuscript inscription: "Ernest H.H. Shorting" with note in same hand: "The seven volumes are scarce & of value.". Jacobean armorial shield on a mantle bookplate (Franks 2434): 'George Betts of Wortham in Suffolk'. 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 half brown morocco; purple cloth over boards; sewn onto four recessed cords; five false bands; gilt and blind tooled spine; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Norfolk churches' and 'Ladbrooke / Vol. I'; marbled bookblock edges; blue ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Robert Ladbrooke (Norwich 1770 – Norwich 1842), lithographer Ladbrooke, John Berney, lithographer