Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales. / By the most eminent British artists. With a description of each seat.
Category
Books
Date
1786 - 1788
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3246468
Summary
Bibliographic description
[11], 4, [87] leaves, [100] leaves of plates : ill. ; obl. fol. Shelved and uniform with: Angus' "The seats of the nobility and gentry ... " (London, 1787-1815), "The copper-plate magazine" (vols. 1-5) (London, 1792-1802), bound with Sandby's "A collection of landscapes" (London, 1777), Sandby's "The virtuosi's museum ... " (London, 1778), 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), and 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). Imperfect: wanting plate and leaf of descriptive letterpress for Llanfilio. Lacks tissue guardleaves to plates. The date "1788" has been added in ink to the imprint on the title page. Pencil mark against Llanfilio in alphabetical list on final leaf. Pencil note on rear free endpaper: "a beautiful collection, 15 vols. £35.". 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 'Harrison's Seats'; double gilt fillet on board edges; triple gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges.