Four studies of trees, : drawn from nature and engraved on stone. / By William Evans.
William Evans (1798-1877)
Category
Books
Date
1823
Materials
Place of origin
Eton
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3241483
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4] leaves of plates : all ill. (lithographs) ; fol. With one of the original pencil drawings tipped in. Pencil note about this copy on front pastedown. Pencil note on original front cover: "4 Views of Windsor 1823". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Manuscript inscriptions on original front cover: (1) (crossed through): "Revd. Dr. Keate" [i.e. John Keate (1773-1852), Head Master of Eton College, 1809-1834]; (2): "[illegible] B--". Binding: Twentieth-century quarter dark blue morocco, red cloth over boards; gilt lettered spine: 'Evans - Studies of trees - Eton - 1823'; gilt-stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spine. Original wrappers bound in. Binder's gilt-stamp on rear pastedown: 'Robson & Co Ld'.
Makers and roles
William Evans (1798-1877), artist William Evans (1798-1877), lithographer