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.

Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists with a description of each seat.

Accession number
PML 142063
Published
London : Published as the Act directs by Harrison & Co. ..., [1786-1788]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Imprint dates from dates on plates.
Engraved t.p., including vignette of the Harrison bookshop.
"An alphabetical arrangement of one hundred picturesque views of seats of the nobility and gentry in England and Wales"--Final leaf.
Engravings by Birrell, Walker, Ellis, Fittler, Heath, among others, after E.F. Burney, Corbould, Dayes, Robert Nixon and others.
Description
[101] leaves, [100] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 22 x 28 cm
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Nicholas Ashton; bookplate of Paul Mense ("ex libris Pauli Menso"); from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary red morocco, onlaid border and bands on spine of green morocco, gold-tooled in chinoiserie and classical motifs, by Kalthoeber.
Classification
Department