Complete historical descriptions of a new and elegant collection of picturesque views and representations 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 ruins ... delineated: ... To which are added, ... seats of the nobility and gentry; ... By Henry Boswell, ... assisted by many antiquarians, ...
Henry Boswell
Category
Books
Date
1785
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3126396
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],[iii]-iv,42,[508]p.,100 plates . ill.., maps . fol.. Not indigenous. Loosely inserted: clippings from dealer's catalogues, unrelated to provenance. Provenance: Nineteenth-century crest bookplate lettered J. H. Hodgetts Foley [i.e. John Hodgetts Hodgetts-Foley (1795-1861) of Prestwood, Staffordshire, son of Edward Foley of Stoke Edith, Herefordshire. Not in Franks]. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on pastedown in Norris's hand: Stoke Edith Library. S. [Sotheby's] 23/6 48. Lot 623. Đ2.. Binding: Eighteenth-century tree calf over boards; spine gilt; red morocco spine label: "Boswell's Antiquities"; sewn on six raised bands.
Makers and roles
Henry Boswell