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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Title(s):
Graphical and literary illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire : with heraldical and genealogical notices of the Beckford family / by John Britton.
Additional Title(s):

Britton's Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey

Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey

Illustrations, graphic and literary, of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire
Published/Created:
London : Printed for the author, Burton Cottage, Burton Street : sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster Row : Taylor, High Holborn : Clarke, Bond Street, etc., 1823.
Chiswick : C. Whittingham, College House, [1823]
Physical Description:
[3], vi-viii, [5]-68, [8] pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA690.F6 B7 1823+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Request]

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA690.F6 B7 1823+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Request]

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA690.F6 B7 1823+ Copy 3 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/584124
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Cover title, on publisher's printed label: Britton's Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey.
Added engraved title page: Illustrations, graphic and literary, of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire.
Plates engraved by John Thompson, John Roffe, James Lambert, Henry Winkles, William Tombleson, John Charles Varrall, John Le Keux, Matthew Dubourg, Havell & Son, and Robert Sands; after Thomas Higham, George Cattermole, Samuel Rayner, John Martin, Henry Shaw, Henry Gastineau, and John Britton.
Wood-engraved vignette on the title page.
Archer, J. British domestic architecture, 458.1
Holmes, M. Country house described, p. 104
List of subscribers, [4] p. at end.
Publisher's advertisements: [3] p. at end.
List of contents: last printed page.
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is a large paper copy. Bound in publisher's original brown paper covered boards. Label on front cover: Britton's Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is also a large paper copy. Bound in publisher's original brown paper covered boards. Label on front cover: Britton's Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey.
BAC: British Art Center copy 3 is a small paper copy, 32 cm. Bound in publisher's original brown paper covered boards. Label on front cover: Britton's Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey.
Subject Terms:
Architecture, Domestic -- England -- Wiltshire.
Bickford family
Clarke, -- Publisaher.
Country homes -- England -- Wiltshire.
Fonthill Abbey.
Taylor, -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1823.
Engravings -- 1823.
Wood engravings -- 1823.
Genealogies.
Subscription lists (Publishing)
Publisher's advertisements.
Contributors:
Dubourg, Matthew, engraver.
Havell, Robert, -1832, engraver.
Lambert, James, ca. 1760–1833, engraver.
Le Keux, John, 1783–1846, engraver.
Sands, Robert, 1782–1855, engraver.
Roffe, John, 1769–1850, engraver.
Thompson, John, 1785–1866, engraver.
Tombleson, William, 1795–, engraver.
Varrall, John Charles, active 1818–1848, engraver.
Winkles, Henry, 1800–approximately 1860, engraver.
Cattermole, George, 1800–1868, illustrator.
Gastineau, Henry G., 1791–1876, illustrator.
Higham, Thomas, 1796–1844, illustrator.
Martin, John, 1789–1854, illustrator.
Rayner, Samuel, 1806–1879, illustrator.
Shaw, Henry, 1800–1889, illustrator.
Whittingham, Charles, 1767–1840, printer.
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, publisher.
Walter, Paul F., donor.
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