BEIN Nb82 Sm51 +776 Copy 1: In original boards and untrimmed. Bookplate of Arthur Young. Stamp of Henry R. Wagner., BEIN Nb82 Sm51 +776 Copy 2: 28 cm., and BEIN 1975 +111: Bookplate of Seth Sprague Terry. Autographs of Thomas Case (v.1 only) and Edward Howman. Presentation inscription to Jerome S. Hess from Mark Gabriel Holstein, 1935. From the library of Gabriel Wells. Bookseller's printed description affixed to front pastedown.
BEIN Nb82 Sm51 +776 Copy 1: In original boards and untrimmed. Bookplate of Arthur Young. Stamp of Henry R. Wagner., BEIN Nb82 Sm51 +776 Copy 2: 28 cm., and BEIN 1975 +111: Bookplate of Seth Sprague Terry. Autographs of Thomas Case (v.1 only) and Edward Howman. Presentation inscription to Jerome S. Hess from Mark Gabriel Holstein, 1935. From the library of Gabriel Wells. Bookseller's printed description affixed to front pastedown.
"Portrait of Arthur Young, nearly half-length, seated on a chair in profile to right, wearing an open coat and neckerchief."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist, printmaker, and date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1924,0125.4., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 562 (leaf numbered '156' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of descriptions of residences of English nobility. The author focuses on descriptions of the views from each seat and the landscape in which the house is situated; occasionally he also describes the architecture and furnishings of the houses and provides anecdotes about the owners. He calls Winander Meer in Westmoreland "the largest water of the kind in England," and notes its picturesque promontories and shrub-decorated shores. At Raby Castle in North Riding, Yorkshire, the seat of the Earl of Darlington, he praises the Gothic taste of the windows; provides the dimensions of the "rendezvous apartment"; and explains how the dog-kennel, "rising out of a wood," beautifies the scene. He also speaks approvingly of Sir James Lowther's project in Cumberland of "building a town to consist of 300 houses, for the use of such of his Domesticks, and other people as are married," which he calls "a most incomparable method of promoting population."
Description:
In English., Alphabetical table of contents at beginning of manuscript., At end of manuscript: "The following table of Rooms in the Noblemen & Gentlemen's Seats mentioned in this Vol[u]me do not give the exact proportion of any whole house ... .", Title from title page., Bookplate of Philip Shirley., Bookplate of Ettington Manuscript Library. Written in ink in center: No. 62., Steel engraving pasted on preliminary leaf, opposite clipping with description: Ickworth House near Bury St. Edmunds : the seat of the most noble the Marquess of Bristol / engd. on steel by Alfred Adlard. 50 Dorset Street, Salisbury Square., and Binding: quarter calf over marbled boards. Printed on spine: Noblemens Seats.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture, Domestic, Gentry, Homes and haunts, Nobility, Social life and customs, Travelers' writings, English, and Description and travel
