Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The beauties of Stow, or, A description of the most noble house, gardens & magnificent buildings therein, of the Right Hon[ora]ble Earl Temple, Viscount & Baron Cobham : with above thirty plates of each particular building, two views of the house, and a curious general plan of the whole gardens / by Geo. Bickham, engraver.

Accession number
PML 53002
Creator
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771.
Published
[London] : Sold by G. Bickham in London, Mr Hoskins at the New Inn going into ye Gardens ..., [1753].
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1962.
Notes
Without description of house.
Date from map.
T.p. included in plates count.
Publisher's advertisements (Prints, and books, sold in May's Buildings, Covent-Garden. Printed for George Bickham, engraver, late Drawing-Master to the Academy at Greenwich): [3] p. at end.
Signatures: [A]1 B-F⁶G⁶(-G6).
Description
67, [3] p. (the first two p. blank), [30] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Provenance
Formerly owned by Joseph Ridgway of Ridgmont (Earl of Londonderry?, armorial bookplate, Franks 25025); Jane Norton Grew Morgan (Mrs. J. P. Morgan, Jr.), Henry S. Morgan.
Binding
1/2 brown morocco, by C.M. Ullman, 1963.
Classification
Department