Bath, : illustrated by a series of views, / from the original drawings of John Claude Nattes; with descriptions to each plate.
John Claude Nattes (Ireland? c.1765 - London 1839)
Category
Books
Date
1806
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3245754
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], iii, [1], 56 p., 28 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; fol. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "very choice copy, uncut". Pencil number "12700", initials "NAW" and pencil tick on front free endpaper verso. Pencil number "9642" on rear free endpaper. Ephemera: loosely inserted: carbon copy of bookseller's description of this copy. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on title page: "Thackeray". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full dark red straight-grained morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; upper board lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Views of Bath / Nattes'; sewn onto five recessed cords; five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct: 'Views of Bath Nattes'; gilt rolled board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins (palmette design); gilt top edge; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
John Claude Nattes (Ireland? c.1765 - London 1839), original artist John Hill (London 1770 - Clarksville, USA 1850), aquatinter Frederick Christian Lewis the elder (London 1779 - Enfield 1856), aquatinter