Views of Lansdown Towers, Bath : the favourite edifice of the late William Beckford, Esqr.; from drawings by Willes Maddox ; on stone by C.J. Richardson (oversize)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Views of Lansdown Towers, Bath : the favourite edifice of the late William Beckford, Esqr.; from drawings by Willes Maddox ; on stone by C.J. Richardson (oversize)
Other titles: Lansdown Tower, Bath
Classmark: Bedford Collection K010
Creator(s): English, Edmund Francis
Additional creator(s): Maddox, Willes (1813-1853) (Other); Richardson, C J (1806-1871) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Related people: Beckford, William, 1760-1844; Beckford, William, 1760-1844
Publisher: Published by Edmund English, JunR, Milsom St, Bath and Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Publication city: Bath [England]
Date(s): 1844
Language: English
Size and medium: [6], 10 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/738764
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019981796005181
Description
Printed by Moyes and Barclay, Castle Street, Leicester Square. Lithographed and printed at 70 St Martin's Lane London.
"To the reader" signed: Edmund Francis English, Jun, Bath October 1st, 1844.
Engraved title page.
List of of subscribers: p.[3]-[4].
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K010: 6 loose items about Lansdown Tower and its interior, Bath comprising: 1. loose excerpt from The Burlington Magazine June 2005, The Jerwood supplement; 2. Two loose photocopies of a short note in the Antiques Trade Gazette on 15/11/2010 and an article on 4/12/2010 by Roland Arkell about the sale of a coffer made for William Beckford for Lansdown Tower on 22 September 2010 at a Sworders interiors sale; 3. Article by Christopher Woodward about Lansdown Tower and the Christie's appeal to save it, Country Life, 15 January 1998; 4. Excerpt from The Sunday Telegraph, 11 January 1998 about the life of William Beckford by Kenneth Powell; 5. Excerpt from The Sunday Telegraph, 23 May 1998 about William Beckford's life and the appeal to save Beckford's Tower by Bel Mooney. 6. Loose [4to] page from a book of an engraving (drawn on stone by E Quinn??) of Fonthill abbey.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K010: contemporary brown cloth, quarter vellum, re-backed red morocco, gold tooled on cover and spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K010: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HSo/2. Nineteenth-century pictorial book label on front pastedown: George Harwood.
Access and usage
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