A description of the gardens of Lord Viscount Cobham, at Stow in Buckinghamshire
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: A description of the gardens of Lord Viscount Cobham, at Stow in Buckinghamshire
Classmark: Bedford Collection B318
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Robertson, Walter (Former owner); Pole, Joseph (Former owner); Stanton, Stephen (Former owner)
Related people: Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 1669?-1749
Publisher: printed by W. Dicey: and sold by B. Seeley, bookseller in Buckingham; and Messrs. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, in London
Publication city: Northampton
Date(s): M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]
Language: English
Size and medium: [6],26p.,plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730976
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019924677505181
Description
Engraved dedication leaf signed: B. Seeley [at the end of bound with volume].
Eleven plates of views of temples and other ornamental buildings in the gardens at Stow, one folded, drawn by B Seeley and dated 1750 are bound at the end of the volume.
Sometimes attributed to B. Seeley, he seems more likely to be only the publisher, and neither H&L nor NUC give evidence for the attribution.
First item in a bound volume of 2 items.
Bound with: A dialogue upon the gardens of The Right Honourable Lord Viscount Cobham at Stow in Buckinghamshire. B. Seeley: Buckingham, 1749.
Indexed in: ESTC
Additional description
Bound with 1 other publication. Volume contents: 2. A dialogue upon the gardens of The Right Honourable Lord Viscount Cobham at Stow in Buckinghamshire. 1749
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B318: excerpt from sale catalogue for this item pasted on front flyleaf.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B318: contemporary marbled paper over boards, vellum spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B318: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HSo/25. MS. annotations or pentrials on front pastedown. Eighteenth-century MS. inscription on front flyleaf: Walter Robertson [partially obliterated] and later inscription beneath: Stephen Stanton. MS. inscription on engraved dedication page at the end of the volume with plates: Joseph Pole.
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