Foyle, William A. (William Alfred), 1885-1963, collector
Published / Created:
[early 20th century]
Call Number:
Folio 64 Es75 768 Index
Container / Volume:
Index
Image Count:
30
Abstract:
A manuscript index to William A. Foyle's extra-illustrated copy of Philip Morant's History and Antiquities of the County of Essex 1768 London edition, listing 868 prints, drawings, and maps used to expand the already illustrated two-volume work into five folio volumes. The additional plates include maps (with some hand-colored maps), portraits of kings, nobility, criminals, and other people; views, scenery, and plans of towns; historical monuments, ruins, castles, manors, and country houses; churches and abbeys; tombs and monuments, coats of arms, genealogies, and antiquities; some satires and a print of the Fairlop Fair. In addition to 21 original drawings, the collection includes representative examples of a range of mediums used in printmaking since the 17th-century and into the late 19th-century: woodcuts, mezzotints, aquatints, steel engravings, stipple engravings, etching, lithography, and wood engraving, many that are hand-colored or, for later production processes, colored as issued; also included are images from London Magazine and the Universal Magazine as well as privately printed plates. Some of the early mezzotints and engravings are in proof states and The entries in the index reference the artist and printmaker (when known) and includes: George Vertue, Jacobus Houbraken, William Smith, Bernard Baron, James Smith, Simon Watts, Lucas Vorsterman, William Byrne, Charles Turner, Vitor Maire Vicot, George Hawkins, W.H. Byrne, John Claude Nattes, James McArgell, William Franklin, T. Athow, Andrea Freschi, R. Cooper, Samuel Buck, John Coney, Richard Houston, Thomas Nugent, John Simon, Henry Shaw, John Faber, Charles Mosley, Pierre Charles Canot, Edward Harding, Jospeh Ryland, Isaac Beckett, Thomas Wright, and Pierre Lombart. The artists of the original art included are: T. (Thomas) Athow and John Laporte, as well as several unidentified artists
Description:
Index is on 28 unnumbered leaves, with blanks before and following.
Eliz 157: Bound by F. Bedford in red goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. This copy is unique. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911., Eliz 157A: [Manuscript copy, of a slightly different version:] The passage of our most drad soveraigne Lady Quene Elizabeth through the Citie of London to Westminster the day before her coronation anno 1558: anonymous manuscript, in a late seventeenth-century hand. 55 pages 19 cm., Eliz 157A: Bound by Morrell in green goatskin, gilt tooling on cover and spine. This manuscript was clearly copied from the second, and probably later, printed edition of the pamphlet (STC 7590), which bears the more flourishing title given abouve (as does this manuscript)., Eliz 157A: This manuscript copy is incomplete, omitting the final two pages of the printed pamphlet. Bookplate of Doris Louise Benz, and sold by Christie's, 27 March 1985, lot 49, when it was purchased for the Elizabethan Club by Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. Purchased March 1985., The first edition., and This is an anonymous account of the formal coronation pageant of Queen Elizabeth, which took place on 14 January 1558/59. There is another edition of the work dated 1558; it is not known which is the earlier.
Publisher:
in Fletestrete within Temple Barre, at the signe of the Hand and Starre, by Richard Tottill
