Plans, elevations, sections, and perspective views of the gardens and buildings at Kew, in Surry : the seat of Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales

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Description

Title: Plans, elevations, sections, and perspective views of the gardens and buildings at Kew, in Surry : the seat of Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales
Creator: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796, author, publisher
Contributor: Haberkorn, John, printer.
Millar, Andrew, 1705-1768, bookseller.
Wilson, D., -1777, bookseller.
Becket, Thomas, bookseller.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, bookseller.
Webley, A. (Bookseller)
Walter, John, -1803, bookseller.
Mercier, Dorothy, active 1735-1778, bookseller.
Patton, F., active 1745-1764, engraver.
Muller, Tobias, engraver.
Kent, William, 1685-1748, architect.
Rooker, Edward, -1774, engraver.
Basire, James, 1730-1802, engraver.
Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, engraver.
Kirby, John Joshua, 1716-1774, artist.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, engraver.
Sandby, Thomas, 1723-1798, artist.
R. and J. Dodsley, bookseller.
Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, February 2, 2017-April 30, 2017)
Published / Created: MDCCLXIII [1763]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed by J. Haberkorn in Grafton Street, St. Anne's Soho : Published for the author, and to be had at his house in Poland Street ; likewise of A. Millar, D. Wilson, and T. Becket, all in the Strand : of R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall : R. Sayer, in Fleet-Street, A. Webley in Holborn : J. Walter at Charing Cross : and Dorothy Mercier at the Golden Ball, Windmill Sreet, Golden Square
Description: Engravings by Edward Rooker, Charles Grignion, Tobias Müller, James Basire, W. Wollett, Paul Sandby, F. Patton and J. Major; after William Kent, William Chambers, Smeaton, John Joshua Kirby, William Marlow and Thomas Sandby.
Ten of the leaves of plates are double bound.
With directions to the binder on page 8.
BAC: British Art Center Folio A 2017 9 copy 1 bound in contemporary stained calf; stamped in gold: "The Society of Writers to the Signet." With case label on front pastedown.
BAC: British Art Center Folio A 2017 9 copy 2 bound in contemporary stained calf. Armorial bookplate: Richard Blackett Beaumont.
BAC: British Art Center Folio A 2017 6 copy 2 bound with: Designs of Chinese buildings / William Chambers. Published for the author ...,1757.
Extent: [4], 8, 41 leaves of plates (some double) : 53 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: 2000 Folio 127

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Pictorial works
Designs and plans
Etchings 1763
Chron
Material: illustrations, plans ;
Resource Type: text
still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Kew
Subject (Name): Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew)
Subject (Topic): Architecture
Gardens
Subjects: Architecture > England > Kew > Pictorial works
Gardens > Designs and plans
Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew) > Pictorial works
1763
Chron > 1763
Beaumont, Richard Blackett > Bookplate
Society of Writers to H.M. Signet (Great Britain) > Binding

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Identifiers

Catalog Record: 5417511
Object ID (OID): 2021037