The seats of the nobility and gentry : in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views, / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists. With descriptions of each view.
William Watts (London 1752 - Cobham 1851)
Category
Books
Date
1779 - 1782
Materials
Place of origin
Chelsea
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3246471.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Plates I-XLII (with accompanying letterpress) : ill. ; obl. 4to. Imperfect: wanting list of subscribers. Duplicate (proof?) copies of all plates except I, VII, IX-XI, XIV-XV, XXI-XVI, XXVIII, XXX, XXXV, XL-XLI. Two duplicate (proof?) copies of plate XVII. Tissue guardleaves to some plates. 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 'Watts's Seats I'; double gilt fillet on board edges; triple gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
William Watts (London 1752 - Cobham 1851), engraver (printmaker)