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Plans, elevations, sections, and other ornaments of the Mansion-House, belonging to the Corporation of Doncaster

Archive Print Item: BC Misc. Quartos PAI

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Type of record: Book

Title: Plans, elevations, sections, and other ornaments of the Mansion-House, belonging to the Corporation of Doncaster

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Misc. Quartos PAI

Creator(s): Paine, James (1717?-1789)

Additional creator(s): Grignion, Charles (1721-1810) (Other); Hayman, Francis (1708-1776) (Other); Rooker, Edward (1774) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Simpson, John Revd (Former owner); Weston Library, Staffordshire (Former owner)

Publisher: Printed for the author

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1751

Language: English

Size and medium: 6 unnumbered pages, 3 pages, 1 unnumbered page, XXI leaves of plates (some folding)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/324342

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016983269705181

Description

Engraved title vignette (portrait of the author) by Charles Grignion after Francis Hayman; other plates by Edward Rooker after Paine's designs.


Indexed in: ESTC

Additional description

Plates V and VI wanting. The flyleaf has a ms note with a pasted-in inscription (dated 1770) and shield removed from the volume when it was rebound

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K079: excerpt from sale catalogue for this item, no 6383.


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K079: original boards, re-backed and repaired, half-calf, gold tooled on spine.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K079: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HSo/15. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Weston Library Arma Comitis de Bradford [i.e. Earldom of Bradford, 2nd creation, Weston Park, Staffordshire, see Franks bequest 3667 seal armorial]. MS. inscription on front pastedown: Jno - Simpson 1751. MS. inscription on front flyleaf: The Revd Mr Simpson [i.e. Reverend John Simpson of Stoke Park, Derbyshire].

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