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Burghley, the life of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasuer of England, etc. : biographical notices of his successors the Earls and Marquises of Exeter : a description of Burghley House, with a complete and accurate guide to the several paintings, tapestries, antiquities, and other articles of interest and vertu with which it is enriched : and a brief notice of the family monuments, &c., in St. Martin's Church, Stamford Baron : to which is appended a list of the artists by whom the collection of picures in the above residence was painted, with the places where they were born, and the dates of their births and deaths
Title
Burghley, the life of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasuer of England, etc. : biographical notices of his successors the Earls and Marquises of Exeter : a description of Burghley House, with a complete and accurate guide to the several paintings, tapestries, antiquities, and other articles of interest and vertu with which it is enriched : and a brief notice of the family monuments, &c., in St. Martin's Church, Stamford Baron : to which is appended a list of the artists by whom the collection of picures in the above residence was painted, with the places where they were born, and the dates of their births and deaths / by the Rev. W.H. Charlton, M.A., rector of St. George's, Stamford, and domestic chaplain to the Marquis of Exeter.
Publication
Stamford [England] : Published by and for W. Langley, High-Street, 1847.
Manufacture
Stamford : Samuel Sharp, High-Street, [1847]
Physical Description
xxi, [1], 319, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 bound in contemporary maroon publisher's cloth.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in later red cloth. Armorial device of Cecil family stamped in gilt on leather label affixed to front cover.
Notes
Mezzotint portrait of William Cecil engraved by H.T. Ryall. Portrait of Brownlow, Second Marquis of Exeter engraved by Charles W. Wass; after a portrait Martin Archer Shee. Portrait of Isabella, Marchioness of Exeter engraved by Charles W. Wass; after a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Plans of Burghley House by Clubb & Son; after E. Browning. Engraving of St. Martins Church, Stamford by Rock & Co., London.
List of subscribers: p. (iii)-xiv.
Names of the artists by who the collection of pictures in Burghley House was painted, with the places where they were born, and the times of their births and deaths: p. [297]-319.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Mezzotints - 1847.
Steel engravings - 1847.
Guidebooks.
Subscription lists (Publishing)
Armorial bindings (Provenance)
Armorial bindings (Binding)
Genealogies.
Also listed under
Clubb & Son, engraver.
Rock Brothers & Payne, engraver.
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