A description of Fonthill Abbey and demesne, in the county of Wilts; : including a list of its paintings, cabinets, &c
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: A description of Fonthill Abbey and demesne, in the county of Wilts; : including a list of its paintings, cabinets, &c
Classmark: Bedford Collection B321
Creator(s): Rutter, John (1796-1851)
Additional creator(s): Higham, Thomas (1796-1844) (Engraver); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Davidson (Former owner); Longman, Hurst, and Co. (Bookseller); Brodie and Dowding, Sarum (Bookseller)
Related people: Beckford, William, 1760-1844; Bickford family
Publisher: printed and published by J. Rutter; to be had of Longman, Hurst and Co. London; and of all booksellers
Publication city: Shaftesbury
Date(s): 1822
Language: English
Size and medium: viii pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 74 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730993
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019926376705181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Frontispiece engraving of Fonthill Abbey by T. Higham after John Rutter.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B321: excerpts from Salisbury Journal, January 1826 and Devizes Gazette, March 1826 about Fonthill Abbey and property, and its sale on [loose] front flyleaf; excerpt from sale catalogue for this item, no. 92, pasted onto front flyleaf.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B321: contemporary half calf, marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B321: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HSo/8. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Davidson [Suffield sculp] [i.e. see Franks Bequest 8068]. Black ink stamp on page 32: [Brodie and Dowding, Printers, Sarum].
Access and usage
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