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Creator:
Batty, Captain (Robert), -1848
Title(s):
French scenery : from drawings made in 1819 / by Captain Batty of the Grenadier Guards.
Additional Title(s):
European scenery, France
Published/Created:
London : Published by Rodwell & Martin, New Bond Street 1822.
Physical Description:
[130] p., 64 (i.e. 65) leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 38 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NE1724 .B375 1822+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
NE1724 .B375 1822+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Engraved title page.
Half-title: European scenery, France.
Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars.
Each plate accompanied by page of text. English and French text on recto and verso of accompanying page.
Engravings by Charles Askey, Charles Heath, Edward Finden, Edward Goodall, Robert Wallis, Samuel Lacey, Charles Westwood, Edward John Roberts, J. Lacy, S. Porter, Samuel Mitan, John Rolfe, George James Corbould, J. C. Edwards, Henry Le Keux, and Edward Blore; after Robert Batty.
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is a large paper copy with plates printed on India paper in two states: proofs before letters and after letters. Bound in green gilt-tooled morocco binding, with red watered-silk endpapers. Binder's ticket on verso of first free endpaper: Bound by Dawson & Lewis, 5 Richmonds Buildings, Dean Street, Soho. Owner's label: E.M. Martineau. Copy 2 is 29 cm. Bound in contemporary maroon half morocco and marbled boards. Bookplate: James Frothingham Hunnewell. Lacks half-title.
Subject Terms:
Davison, Thonas -- Printer.
Dawson & Lewis -- Bookbinder.
France -- Description and travel.
France -- Pictorial works.
Hunnewell, James Frothingham -- Bookplate.
Martineau, E. M. -- Bookplate.
Rodwell & Martin -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Steel engravings -- 1822.
Contributors:
Askey, Charles, engraver.
Blore, Edward, 1787–1879, engraver.
Corbould, George James, 1786–1846, engraver.
Edwards, J. C., active 19th century, engraver.
Finden, Edward Francis, 1791–1857, engraver.
Goodall, Edward, 1795–1870, engraver.
Heath, Charles, 1785–1848, engraver.
Lacey, Samuel, active 1818–1857, engraver.
Lacy, J., engraver.
Le Keux, Henry, 1787–1868, engraver.
Mitan, Samuel, 1786–1843, engraver.
Porter, Samuel, active 1792–1842, engraver.
Roberts, Edward John, 1797–1865, engraver.
Rolph, John A., 1799–1862, engraver.
Walllis, Robert, 1794–1878, engraver.
Westwood, Charles, -1855, engraver.
Batty, Captain (Robert), -1848, ill.
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