Observations upon the town of Cromer, considered as a watering place, and the picturesque scenery in its neighbourhood. By Edmund Bartell, jun.
Edmund Bartell
Category
Books
Date
1800
Materials
Place of origin
Holt
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3211991
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 81, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Imperfect: wanting frontispiece plate. Extra-illustrated copy, with 9 additional engraved plates mounted on interleaved blank leaves, containing views of Felbrigg Hall, Gunton Halll, Holt Heath, Cromer, Melton Hall, Salle House, Hanworth Hall, Emneth Lodge, and Blickling Hall. Provenance: folded note paper attached to front fly-leaf, with printed engraved view of Cromer at head and manuscript inscription: "R. W. Ketton-Cremer Felbrigg. This book, from the library of Sir F. H. Barclay of Cromer, was given to me after his death by his son, February 18th 1935" [i.e. written by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969); the book previously owned by Francis Hubert Barclay (1869-1935), of The Warren, Cromer]. Binding: nineteenth-century half-bound calf, repaired in goatskin with gold-tooling, and with marbled paper over boards; red morocco spine label with gilt title and author; gold-tooling on spine. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Edmund Bartell, author