Designs for lodges and park entrances
Peter Frederick Robinson (1776 - 1858)
Category
Books
Date
1833
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3178029
Summary
Bibliographic description
7, [25] p., 48 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 33cm. Former shelfmark: T.b.4. Ink outlines of the leaf of an Ontario Poplar on front and final endpapers, front outline with inscription: "Outline of a leaf of the Ontario Poplar grown at the Hayes Derbyshire 1845 taken when dried. Extreme width 8 inches Do length 9 inches". Final outline: "Outline of a leaf of an Ontario Poplar grown in the Stable yard of the Bell Inn Derby taken after being dried August 11th 1842". Also contains dried leaf specimens (now in acid-free tissue) loosely inserted before "Design 8". Provenance: Inscribed on title page: "GCrewe, for Calke Abbey Library". Also on front pastedown: Nineteenth-century armorial Harpur-Crewe book plate with monogram [unidentified]. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter green cloth on brown paper. Paper title label on upper cover with black lettering: "Designs for lodges and park entrances, by P.F. Robinson ..."
Makers and roles
Peter Frederick Robinson (1776 - 1858)