Accession number
PML 196187-89
Creator
Somerset, Frances Seymour, Duchess of, 1699-1754.
Published
London : Printed by I. Gold, Shoe Lane, for Richard Phillips, 1805.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2015.
Notes
"In three volumes".
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret, in v. 1.
"S. Hamilton, Printer, Shoe-Lane, Fleet-Street."--Colophon, v. 1.
"Printed by I. Gold, Shoe-Lane."."--Colophon, v. 3.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret, in v. 1.
"S. Hamilton, Printer, Shoe-Lane, Fleet-Street."--Colophon, v. 1.
"Printed by I. Gold, Shoe-Lane."."--Colophon, v. 3.
Description
3 v. (xxvii, 244; 312; 414 p., [1] leaf of plates) : port. ; 20 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Flyleaves of all three volumes heavily annotated in pencil by former owner art collector William Beckford, with his transcriptions of noteworthy passages from the text and comments on the Countess of Pomfret's observations abroad and her descriptions of European art collections, including a lengthy note concerning the Cellini salt cellar the Countess saw in Schloss Ambras.
Provenance
Annotations of William Beckford; bookplate of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
Binding
Light brown calf; housed in brown cloth clamshell box.
Classification
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