The seats of the nobility and gentry, : in Great Britain and Wales in a collection of select views, / engraved by W. Angus. From pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists. With descriptions of each view.
William Angus (1752-1821)
Category
Books
Date
1787 - 1815
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3246454
Summary
Bibliographic description
[128] p., [1], lxiii leaves of plates ; obl. 4to. Provenance: Nineteenth-century anonymous printed bookplate with text: 'If thou art borrowed by a Friend, Right welcome shall he be, To read to study, not to lend, But to return to me. Not that imparted knowledge doth Diminish Learning's store, But books I find, if often lent, Return to me no more. / Read slowly, pause frequently, Think seriously; Keep cleanly, return duly; With the corners of the leaves not turned down.'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full straight-grained olive green morocco; gilt fillets and rolls to form an outer border, blind fillets and roll to form an inner border; gilt stamped centrepiece: detail of an entrance; recessed cords; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct: 'Angus's Views'; gilt textblock edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
William Angus (1752-1821), engraver (printmaker)