The copper-plate magazine, : or Monthly cabinet of picturesque prints, consisting of sublime and interesting views in Great Britain and Ireland, / beautifully engraved by the most eminent artists from the paintings and drawings of the first masters.
Walker, John
Category
Books
Date
1792 - 1802
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3246456
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 v., plates : ill. ; obl. 4to. 5 v. in 3. Shelved and uniform with Angus' "The seats of the nobility and gentry ... " (London, 1787-1815), Sandby's "The virtuosi's museum ... " (London, 1778), "Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales" (London, [1788]), Watts' "The seats of nobility and gentry ... " ([London], 1779-[1786]), Milton's "Select views in Ireland ... " (London, 1821), bound with "A collection of views ... in North Wales" (London, 1792), Middiman's "Select views in Great Britain" (London, [1813?]), bound with Watts' "Select views of the principal buildings ... in the cities of Bath and Bristol ... " (London, 1819). Vol. 5 bound with Sandby's "A collection of landscapes" (London, 1777). Booksellers' pencil notes in v. 1-2: "100 Gen. Seats 820 Supp. 824" on front free endpaper verso and "a beautiful series £35.", "15 Vols. in 10" and price code: "jo/-/-." on rear free endpaper. Bookseller's pencil note in v. 3-4 on rear free endpaper: "£35. 15 vols. in 10". Provenance: pencil initials on front pastedown (rear pastedown in v. 5): "C W H". 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 green morocco; gilt fillets and roll to form a border; sewn onto five recessed cords; five false bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Views in Gt. Britain' and (v.1-4): 'Copperplate magazine I. II.[-III. IV.]' [v. 5: 'Copperplate mag. and Sandby V.VI.']; double gilt fillet on board edges; triple gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Walker, John, engraver (printmaker)