Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey
Other titles: Illustrated history and description of Fonthill Abbey
Classmark: Bedford Collection D498
Creator(s): Rutter, John (1796-1851)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Jeudwine, Wynne Rice Hugh (1920-1984) (Former owner); Charles Knight & Co. (Bookseller); Longman, Hurst, and Co. (Bookseller); Hurst, Robinson, and Co. (Bookseller); John and Arthur Arch (Bookseller); Bernard Quaritch Ltd, London (Bookseller); Bloomsbury Book Auctions (Bookseller)
Related people: Bickford family; Beckford, William, 1760-1844
Publisher: Published by the author, Shaftesbury.; By Charles Knight and Co. Pall Mall East; : Longman, Hurst, and Co. Paternoster Row; : Hurst, Robinson, and Co. Cheapside; : John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill, &c. &c
Publication city: [Shaftesbury] : London
Date(s): MDCCCXXIII [1823]
Language: English
Size and medium: [iii]-xxvi, 127, [1] p., [14] leaves of plates (3 col.), [1] fold. leaf of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729528
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019884954705181
Description
With hand-coloured engravings; added title page engraved (plate 8): An illustrated history and description of Fonthill Abbey.
Genealogical tables "shewing the descent of William Beckford": p. [113-118].
List of subscribers pp. [119]-127.
Coats of arms with motto "DE DIEU TOUT" on title page.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection D498: two MS maps of Fonthill and Hindon; Letter on headed paper from Paul, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 5 August 1998 to John Bedford explaining that their client's copy of Rutter's Fonthill is now for sale, price £550; two photocopied pages of the Millard catalogue of English books at the National Gallery of Art, Washington describing this work; a printed flier for an illustrated lecture on Victorian funerary art and architecture by James Stevens Curl F.S.A at The Library, Ely Place Wisbech, 14 October 1978; A printed single sheet poem [accompanying the lecture flier], Lines Written on viewing Wisbech Cemetery by William Wiseman, Saffron Walden, 1850.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection D498: contemporary half blue/green calf, original printed [on front cover] paper boards.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection D498: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HSo/33. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: W R H J in the corners with a blue scorpion in a circle [i.e. Wynne Rice Hugh Jeudwine (1920-1984)]. Letter from Bernard Quaritch Ltd, booksellers, indicating that this book was sold to John Bedford in 1998 and was previously in the Jeudwine Collection sold by Bloomsbury in 1984 [i.e. Wynne Rice Hugh Jeudwine (1920-1984), author, book collector, dealer??].
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