The seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Scotland, : being a collection of the most interesting and picturesque views, / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent authors, with descriptions of each view.
William Watts (London 1752 - Cobham 1851)
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3242338
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], LXXXIV leaves of plates ; 4to. Plates XXV (Hatfield House) and LXXXI (Hatfield Hall) have been interchanged in the binding; pencil notes at the top of the accompanying descriptions give the relevant cross-references. Pencil bookseller's codes on free endpapers. Ephemera: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy loosely inserted (price cut out). Loosely inserted at plate XLI (Sion House): cutting on religious practice titled 'Second sorrowful mystery. The scourging of Jesus'. Binding: Nineteenth-century full purple morocco; gilt and blind rolls and gilt fillets to form a panel design, with blind-stamped decorative centrepiece on upper and lower boards; three recessed cords; four false bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Watts's Views'; gilt rolled at corners of board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; brown endpapers.
Makers and roles
William Watts (London 1752 - Cobham 1851), engraver (printmaker)