Views and interiors of English palaces
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Views and interiors of English palaces
Classmark: Bedford Collection C225
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Pyne, W H (1769-1843) (Other); Evelegh, George (Former owner)
Publisher: [no publisher]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1825
Language: English
Size and medium: 84 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/737651
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019986992505181
Description
The plates are a selection from W. H. Pyne, The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore, illustrated by one hundred highly finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings by the most eminent artists (London: printed for A Dry, 1819). Originally issued in 25 parts, in printed wrappers, to be bound in 3 volumes.
Drawings, dated 1816-19, by Mackenzie, Nash, Pugin, Stephanoff, and others. Cf. Dict. Nat'l. Biog.
The 84 undated black and white plates here drawn by Westall, Stephanoff, Cattermole, and Wildby re-issued[?] with newly-printed title page in 1825: Views and interiors of English palaces. Engraved by R Reeves [R Reeve], J Reeve, J Baily, W. J. Bennett, T. Sutherland and others.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C225: loose notes in John Bedford's hand matching plates to those in Pyne; 5 photocopied pages of the plates in WH Pyne, The history of the royal residences, with descriptions supplied by Marlborough Rare Books in 2004; 2 loose notes in pencil in John Bedford's hand in a pocket on front flyleaf listing plates missing, and quotation from James Lees-Milne, Diaries (1985) about East Down Manor belonging to Pyne family with panelling and watercolours by W. H. Pyne.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C225: contemporary hlaf red morrocco, gold tooled, red marbled endpapers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C225: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HSO/10. Twentieth-century MS. inscription on title page: G C Evelegh. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate on front flyleaf: George Evelegh [Non sibi sed patrie, possibly of the military family Evelegh?]
Access and usage
Access
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