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A guide to Burghley House, Northamptonshire, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter : containing a catalogue of all the paintings, antiquities, &c. : with biographical notices of the artists
Title
A guide to Burghley House, Northamptonshire, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter : containing a catalogue of all the paintings, antiquities, &c. : with biographical notices of the artists.
Publication
Stamford : Printed and published by John Drakard, High Street : and sold by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy : and Nichols and Son, in London, 1815.
Physical Description
x, 292, [4] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is a large paper copy. Bound in contemporary red quarter morocco and brown boards. Frontispiece, Burgley House, near Stamford, repeated as plate. Lacks plate with title Burghley Lodge. Includes publisher's advertisements, [2] pages at end.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is bound in contemporary calf with marbled boards (22 cm). Lacks added engraved title page. Bookplate: Rupert Gunnis. Inscription: N.B. More [illegible]. Lacks ground plan of Burghley House and reference to the plan included in copy 1. Lacks publisher's advertisment present at end of copy 1.
BAC: British Art Center copy 3 is bound in publisher's original brown printed paper covered boards (24 cm). Publisher's advertisements printed on back cover. Lacks added engraved title page. With publisher's advertisement [2] p. at end. Bound by John Davies, Bookseller, etc. Shewsbury. Lacks ground plan of Burghley House and reference to the plan included in copy 1.
Notes
With an added engraved title page: A guide to Burghley House, in Northamptonshire, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter.
Engravings by Henry William Burgess, John Greig, R. Penny, and James Storer; after Edward Blore and Henry William Burgess.
Index to the portraits: p. [1]-[4] at end.
Authorship ascribed by Halkett & Laing.
Variant and related titles
Guide to Burghley House, in Northamptonshire, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Burghley House, near Stamford
The Lodges
Pedigree of the Marquis of Exeter
Ground plans of Burghley House. Reference to the plan.
References
Halkett, S. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous publications in the English language (3rd ed.), v. II, p. 417
Holmes, M. Country house described, p. 55
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Engravings - 1815.
Genealogies.
Guidebooks.
Publisher's advertisements.
Also listed under
Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, publisher.
J.B. Nichols and Sons, publisher.
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