Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772, on several parts of England; : particularly the mountains, and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland. / By William Gilpin, M.A. ...
William Gilpin (1724-1804)
Category
Books
Date
1788
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256625
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition. 2 v. : col. ill. ; 8vo. 2 v. in 1. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works by Gilpin. Provenance: Printed booklabel on front pastedown: 'H.W. to F.F.G. 1840.' Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Early nineteenth-century full calf; double blind fillet and blind roll to form an outer border on boards; sewn onto recessed cords; rebacked (twentieth century), spine entirely replaced; blind tooling on spine; red morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Gilpin on the picturesque' and 'Cumberland and Westmoreland'; blind rolled board edges and turn-ins; brown sprinkled textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
William Gilpin (1724-1804), author Joseph Farington, RA (Leigh, Manchester 1747 - Didsbury, Canada 1821), aquatinter