Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800-1881
Title:
The book of royalty : characteristics of British palaces / by Mrs. S. C. Hall ; the drawings by W. Perring and J. Brown.
Published / Created:
London : Ackermann and Company, 1839.
Physical Description:
42, [2] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA111 .H35 1839+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA111 .H35 1839+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Verse and prose anecdotes of British royalty.

Printed by Whitehead & Co., London. Frontispiece printed by C. Hullmandel.

With an added lithographed title page.

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 297

BEIN 1971 +97: Copy with stamp from Könighliche Ernst August-Fideicomiss-Bibliothek.

BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Both copies are bound in publisher's red roan, stamped in gilt. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Binder's ticket (copy 1): Westley, Sons & Jarvis, London. Autograph: Edward Shelley.
Contents:
Victoria -- The fair forester -- The summons -- The new beauty -- The heroine of the Savoy -- Charles the First parting from his children -- The doomed princes -- The king reproved -- Fair Rosamond at Woodstock -- The death of Lady Anne -- The chaplet of honour -- Mary of Scotland.
Subject Terms:
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers. | Great Britain -- Queens. | Palaces -- Great Britain. | Ackerman and Company -- Publisher. | Whitehead & Co. -- Printer. | Shelley, Edward -- Autograph. BACRB Copy 1 | Könighliche Ernst August-Fideicomiss-Bibliothek -- Stamp.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1839.
Contributors:
Perring, William, ill. | Brown, J., fl. 1783, ill. | Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834, publisher. | Westley, Son and Jarvis, binder.