R. Ackermann's Yachting scraps.
William Adolphus Knell (1802 - London 1875)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1850 - 1851
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124720
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8] leaves of plates : all col. ill. ; obl. 8vo. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "Yachting Rare 8 Plates". Pencil number on rear free endpaper: 12108". Plates numbered in pencil (lower left corner). Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript catalogue card. 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)]. Historic shelfmark in pencil on front free endpaper verso: "L.14.3". Binding: Late nineteenth-century full calf; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border with small circular gilt stamps at corners; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; red morocco spine label, lettered direct: 'Ackermann's Yachting scraps'; double gilt fillet on board edges; elaborately gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edge; dark sea green endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'.
Makers and roles
William Adolphus Knell (1802 - London 1875), original artist John Harris the younger (1791-1873), engraver (printmaker) Rudolph Ackermann Jr (1793 - 1868), publisher