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 - 1796
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3246456.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1-2, plates : ill. ; obl. 4to. Booksellers' pencil notes on front free endpaper verso: "100 Gen. Seats 820 Supp. 824" and on rear free endpaper: "a beautiful series £35.", "15 Vols. in 10" and price code: "jo/-/-.". Provenance: pencil initials on front pastedown: "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 'Copperplate magazine I. II.'; double gilt fillet on board edges; triple gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Walker, John, engraver (printmaker)