Yale Center for British Art

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

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

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA690.F6 B7 1823+ Copy 3 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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:
Fonthill Abbey. | Bickford family | Country homes -- England -- Wiltshire. | Architecture, Domestic -- England -- Wiltshire. | Taylor, -- Publisher. | Clarke, -- Publisaher.
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.