Antiquarian and topographical cabinet, containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain. Accompanied with letter-press descriptions.
James Sargant Storer (Cambridge 1771 - London 1853)
Category
Books
Date
1807 - 1811
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3187291
Summary
Bibliographic description
10 v., [510] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 12mo. 10v bound in 5. In this set, v.2 lacks printer statement at foot of titlepage. Ticket on pastedown (v.7-8 only): Simpson, printer & bookbinder, Rugeley. Provenance: nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: Mary Dorothea Phillips [i.e. Mary Dorothea Phillips, wife of Nathaniel Phillips, of Slebech, Pembrokeshire (1730-1813), mother of Louisa Catherine, Lady Lichfield]. Each vol. also inscribed: Mrs Phillips. Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper on boards; gold tooled spines; gold lettered spine labels: Topographical cabinet.
Makers and roles
James Sargant Storer (Cambridge 1771 - London 1853) John Greig (fl.1800 - 1853)