Select views in Italy, with topographical and historical descriptions in English and French.
John 'Warwick' Smith (Irthington 1749 – London 1831)
Category
Books
Date
1792 - 1796
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3177175
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., [2], 72 plates. maps. obl. fol. Former shelfmark: Q3. Imperfect: Vol.I only. Provenance: Armorial book plate with canting shield, lettered: "Calke Abbey Library" [? associated with Henry Harpur, 7th Baronet (1763-1819), surname changed to Crewe, 1808, or perhaps his son George Crewe, 8th Baronet (1795-1844)]. Binding: Eighteenth or early nineteenth-century half brown morocco over textured cloth, half blind fillets. Five raised bands, gilt tooling on spine. Brown spine label lettered in gilt: "Select views in Italy". Marbled edges and marbled endpapers. Binder's ticket: Bound by Barker, Ashby.
Makers and roles
John 'Warwick' Smith (Irthington 1749 – London 1831), author