Book
Category
Books
Date
1780 - 1790
Materials
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3247563
Summary
Bound volume of three late eighteenth-century works on architecture and design.
Bibliographic description
Pencil notes on front pastedown: "2 vols. in 1. 51 plates and 5 drawings."; (in a different hand, partially obscured by bookplate): "2 vols in 1 … plates …"; and (in another hand, erased): "15/-". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late eighteenth- / early nineteenth- century half calf, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five recessed cords; gilt tooled spine.