Title
Graphical Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, the seat of John Farquhar Esq.
Book Publisher
Biography Subject
Book Author
Author
Neale J P
Publisher
Date
View Book
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vbn
vbtype
vbtown
Plates
5 steel engraved plates and one wood vignette
Category
UK Topography
Subject
William Beckford
Topo Subcat
Books Series
Series Sequence No,
Natural History
Art Reference
Transport
Buildings
Country Houses - Single
Country
County
Wiltshire
Town
Fonthill
Dept
Departement
Purchase Date
12/04/2010
Bookseller
Bankes Books
Source
Bath Anthony Chandor
Cost
$42.50
Category
County
Town
BOOK
WAM Off-print
Flags
Volume
Format
Quarto
Pagination
16pp 5 plates and one wood vignette (repeated on cover)
Maps
Descriptive Comments
Other Notes
Fair or Market
Internet?
Funding
Birthday from Steve
Estimated Value
Look for better copy?
Binding & Condition
Large paper copy with original printed cover encased in stout vellucent binding with French hinge.
Book plates & labels
Signatures
Initials on title
MS Notes
Provenance Notes
Spotted the book on ABE then discovered the Anthony's Books wa actually Anthony Chandor, formerly Bankes Books.
Most generously discounted 50% by Anthony when I visited him in his care home flat. He thinks the vellucent binding is probably by Chivers of Bath.
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Date
Binder
Work Done/Required
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Rarity
1
LHD (formerly Copac)
8
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Price Guide
Number of copies seen:
1
Target price:
ABE 2002/10
Graphical Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, The Seat of John Farquhar, Esq. withan Historical Description....... by Neale, J.P.: London Sherwood Jones and Co 1824 8vo 16pp with five plates original brown printed boards with vignette of the Eastern Tower on upper cover. Spine rubbed but a very good copy (Keywords: FONTHILL BECKFORD TRAVEL)
The price of the book is
£ 140.00
The seller is mgmanwaring 9 Glentworth road , Bristol, AVN, United Kingdom, BS6 7EG.
R.G.Watkins of Stoke Sub-Hamden beat me to it.
ABE 200312
1. GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF FONTHILL ABBEY, bound with SIX VIEWS OF BLENHEIM. by NEALE, J.P , 1824 London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co. and 1823. 8vo. Publisher's quarter-calf, marbled boards. (iv), 16 pages, 5 plates; 24 pages, 7 plates. First editions. Each work is scarce in its own right--the two bound as a set are not cited on OCLC. Neale's two guide books give an historical description and feature the works of art in each of the great houses. Sporadic foxing. Bookplate. Repair to tip of spine; tips of boards scuffed, else very good. (Keywords: AR EN)
The price of the book is US$ 985.00 (
£ 557.94
)
The seller is BOOKPRESS LTD.1304 Jamestown Road , Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A., 23185.
==> 200409 $1083.50 £
694.40
ABE 200503
Graphical Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey the Seat of John Farquhar Esq with an Historical Description and Notices of Works of Art Formerly Preserved There by J P Neale London: Sherwood Jones & Co, 1824 Original Printed Paper Boards. Poor/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A shabby copy, backstrip missing, front board detached , soiled and foxed printed boards with small vignette to front board.Contents foxed and yellowed , 16 pages of text 5 engravings and vignette of Eastern towers. Text contains a list of the most celebrated pictures and other splendid effects sold at auction and with prices realised .
The price of the book is US$ 297.06 (
£ 150.00
)
Please reference the seller's book # 001196 when ordering.
The seller is John Blanchfield Leeds, WY, United Kingdom.
ABE 201012
1. Graphical Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey Neale, J. P.
Bookseller: Anthony's (bath, SOM, United Kingdom)
Sherwood, Jones, London, 1824. First Edition. Quarto. original paper printed boards, VELLUCENT with French hinge, occasional light spotting to plates and tissue guards. Initials to title page. A nice copy in unusual binding.
Price: £ 85.00
2. Graphical Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey the Seat of John Farquhar Esq with an Historical Description and Notices of Works of Art Formerly Preserved There J P Neale
Bookseller: John Blanchfield (Leeds, WY, United Kingdom)
Book Description: Sherwood Jones & Co, London, 1824. Original Printed Paper Boards. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. original printed paper boards soiled and foxed printed boards with small vignette to front board, rubbing to backstrip with some flaking and minor loss.Contents foxed and yellowed , 16 pages of text 5 engravings and vignette of Eastern towers. Text contains a list of the most celebrated pictures and other splendid effects sold at auction and with prices realised .
Price: £ 120.00
3. Graphical illustrations of Fonthill Abbey. With an historical description and notices of works of art formerly preserved there. Neale, J.P.
Bookseller: Hugh Pagan Limited ABA ILAB (Brockenhurst, HAM, United Kingdom)
Book Description: London, Sherwood, Jones, and Co. (and others) 1824., 1824. A separate issue in book form of the sheets of the first monthly part of the first volume of the second series of J.P.Neale’s Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, published in parts between 1824 and 1829. For this purpose Neale had a special title leaf printed, as well as a dedication leaf addressed to John Farquhar, the then recent purchaser of Fonthill Abbey from William Beckford. Only three of the numerous country houses featured in Neale’s Seats were distinguished by separate publications of this nature - Blenheim Palace, Fonthill Abbey, and Thomas Hope’s house at The Deepdene, Surrey - and each of these publications is scarce today. Not in BAL Cat (but referred to in the compilers’ entry for the second series of Neale’s Seats, their no.2246). 8vo. (4)+16pp, engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates. Publisher’s printed boards, worn and soiled, and slightly splitting at joints towards of spine. Slight offsetting on title leaf and some minor browning at outer margins. Early nineteenth century ownership inscription of an individual with the surname Thompson (forename not easily readable).
Price: £ 214.50
ABE 2002/10
Graphical Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, The Seat of John Farquhar, Esq. withan Historical Description....... by Neale, J.P.: London Sherwood Jones and Co 1824 8vo 16pp with five plates original brown printed boards with vignette of the Eastern Tower on upper cover. Spine rubbed but a very good copy (Keywords: FONTHILL BECKFORD TRAVEL)
The price of the book is £ 140.00
The seller is mgmanwaring 9 Glentworth road , Bristol, AVN, United Kingdom, BS6 7EG.
R.G.Watkins of Stoke Sub-Hamden beat me to it.
ABE 200312
1. GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF FONTHILL ABBEY, bound with SIX VIEWS OF BLENHEIM. by NEALE, J.P , 1824 London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co. and 1823. 8vo. Publisher's quarter-calf, marbled boards. (iv), 16 pages, 5 plates; 24 pages, 7 plates. First editions. Each work is scarce in its own right--the two bound as a set are not cited on OCLC. Neale's two guide books give an historical description and feature the works of art in each of the great houses. Sporadic foxing. Bookplate. Repair to tip of spine; tips of boards scuffed, else very good. (Keywords: AR EN)
The price of the book is US$ 985.00 (£ 557.94)
The seller is BOOKPRESS LTD.1304 Jamestown Road , Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A., 23185.
==> 200409 $1083.50 £694.40
ABE 200503
Graphical Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey the Seat of John Farquhar Esq with an Historical Description and Notices of Works of Art Formerly Preserved There by J P Neale London: Sherwood Jones & Co, 1824 Original Printed Paper Boards. Poor/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A shabby copy, backstrip missing, front board detached , soiled and foxed printed boards with small vignette to front board.Contents foxed and yellowed , 16 pages of text 5 engravings and vignette of Eastern towers. Text contains a list of the most celebrated pictures and other splendid effects sold at auction and with prices realised .
The price of the book is US$ 297.06 (£ 150.00)
Please reference the seller's book # 001196 when ordering.
The seller is John Blanchfield Leeds, WY, United Kingdom.
ABE 201012
1. Graphical Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey Neale, J. P.
Bookseller: Anthony's (bath, SOM, United Kingdom)
Sherwood, Jones, London, 1824. First Edition. Quarto. original paper printed boards, VELLUCENT with French hinge, occasional light spotting to plates and tissue guards. Initials to title page. A nice copy in unusual binding.
Price: £ 85.00
2. Graphical Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey the Seat of John Farquhar Esq with an Historical Description and Notices of Works of Art Formerly Preserved There J P Neale
Bookseller: John Blanchfield (Leeds, WY, United Kingdom)
Book Description: Sherwood Jones & Co, London, 1824. Original Printed Paper Boards. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. original printed paper boards soiled and foxed printed boards with small vignette to front board, rubbing to backstrip with some flaking and minor loss.Contents foxed and yellowed , 16 pages of text 5 engravings and vignette of Eastern towers. Text contains a list of the most celebrated pictures and other splendid effects sold at auction and with prices realised .
Price: £ 120.00
3. Graphical illustrations of Fonthill Abbey. With an historical description and notices of works of art formerly preserved there. Neale, J.P.
Bookseller: Hugh Pagan Limited ABA ILAB (Brockenhurst, HAM, United Kingdom)
Book Description: London, Sherwood, Jones, and Co. (and others) 1824., 1824. A separate issue in book form of the sheets of the first monthly part of the first volume of the second series of J.P.Neale’s Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, published in parts between 1824 and 1829. For this purpose Neale had a special title leaf printed, as well as a dedication leaf addressed to John Farquhar, the then recent purchaser of Fonthill Abbey from William Beckford. Only three of the numerous country houses featured in Neale’s Seats were distinguished by separate publications of this nature - Blenheim Palace, Fonthill Abbey, and Thomas Hope’s house at The Deepdene, Surrey - and each of these publications is scarce today. Not in BAL Cat (but referred to in the compilers’ entry for the second series of Neale’s Seats, their no.2246). 8vo. (4)+16pp, engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates. Publisher’s printed boards, worn and soiled, and slightly splitting at joints towards of spine. Slight offsetting on title leaf and some minor browning at outer margins. Early nineteenth century ownership inscription of an individual with the surname Thompson (forename not easily readable).
Price: £ 214.50