Graphical and literary illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire : with heraldical and genealogical notices of the Beckford Family
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Graphical and literary illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire : with heraldical and genealogical notices of the Beckford Family
Classmark: Bedford Collection D499
Creator(s): Britton, John (1771-1857)
Additional creator(s): Shaw, Henry (1800-1873) (Illustrator); Cattermole, George (1800-1868) (Illustrator); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Davidson, Thomas (Former owner); Eve, Cecil GW (Former owner); John Tiranti & Co., London (Bookseller[?])
Related people: Genealogy
Publisher: printed for the author, Burton Cottage, Burton Street. Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green... [etc.]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1823
Language: English
Size and medium: viii, [5]-68, [6] p., XI plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729541
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019889056805181
Description
One of 270 large paper copies (with 7 additional plates not in the trade edition).
Title vignette.
With added engraved title-page.
List of subscribers at end.
Plates were engraved from drawings by George Cattermole, Henry Shaw and others.
Bedford Collection D499 has list of subscribers [4 pages] followed by 4 pages of advertisements for other works by Britton and A Pugin.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection D499: contemporary full calf, red and black [red worn], gold tooled on cover and spine.gilt on top fore-edge.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection D499: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HSo/39. Twentieth-century bookplate [decorative, calligraphic] on front pastedown: Cecil GW Eve. Printed book label on front pastedown: John Tiranti & Co., 13, Marple Street, Tottenham Court Road, London, W. MS. inscription on half title page: To Thomas Davidson Esq from the author as a mark of esteem.
Access and usage
Access
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