A voyage round Great Britain, : undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall, / by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
William Daniell, RA (1769 - London 1837)
Category
Books
Date
1814 - 1825
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3125134
Summary
Bibliographic description
8 v., plates : col. ill., map ; fol. Imperfect? - wanting map (issued separately?). Plate facing v. 1, p. [1] ("Kemaes-head, Pembrokeshire") is uncoloured. Pencil checkmarks against list of plates for v. 2. Pencil notes on front free endpaper in v. 1-2: "8 vols. in 4" and (in a different hand): "Fine impressions, particularly in the later volumes / Watermark 1813 / Uncoloured plate". Pencil initials "R J" at foot of front free endpaper in v. 1-2. Pencil number "8483" on rear free endpaper in v. 1-2. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso in v. 3-4: "W'm'k 1819/8". Ephemera: tipped-in at front of v. 1-2: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this set (price cut out). Provenance: Nineteenth-century booklabel: "I.W. Goss". 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 full Russia calf, gilt fillets and rolls and blind rolls to form a panel design; four raised bands; rebacked, spines completely replaced (twentieth-century); gilt tooled spines, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Daniell's Voyage round Great Britain' and 'Vol. 1 & 2[-7 & 8]'; single gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; marbled textblock edges and endpapers.
Makers and roles
William Daniell, RA (1769 - London 1837), author Richard Ayton (1786-1823), author