Stowe, a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham : one of His Majesty's most honourable ... : embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of the house, and of each building, with perspective views of the same.

Title & Author:

Edition:

A new edition, with all the alterations and improvements ...

Publication:

Buckingham : Printed and sold by B. Seeley. Sold also by Messrs. Rivington ... London ; And Mr. Hodgkinson ... at Stowe, MDCCLXXVII [1777]

Description:

41, [3] pages, 11, [10] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, plans ; 22 cm

Notes:
Dedication signed: B. Seeley.
Ill. include "prints drawn in perspective by B. Seeley ... also a plan of the house and offices, and plans of the buildings in the gardens" by W. Fairchild.
Advertisements p. [2]-[3] at end.
Library copy: Horace Walpole's annotated copy [Hazen Catalogue of Horace Walpole's Library, II, 2387], later in the library of William Beckford [1883 sale cat. lot 2268] and the Earl of Rosebery.

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "Une arcadie anglaise 1600-1990 = An English Arcadia 1600-1990", Centre canadien d'architecture, Feb. 12-Apr. 19, 1992.
Exhibited: "Une arcadie anglaise 1600-1990 = An English Arcadia 1600-1990", Centre canadien d'architecture, Feb. 12-Apr. 19, 1992.

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Subject:

Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779.
Stowe House (Buckinghamshire, England) Early works to 1800.
Stowe House (Buckinghamshire, England)
Architecture, Domestic Great Britain.
Architecture, Domestic.
Stowe Gardens (England) Early works to 1800.
Stowe Gardens (Angleterre) Ouvrages avant 1800.
England Stowe Gardens.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Added entries:

Seeley, B. (Benton)
Fairchild, W.
John Harris Collection.
Provenance. Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Provenance. Beckford, William, 1760-1844. Supplier info.
Provenance. Rosebery, Archibald John, Earl of, 1783-1868. Supplier info.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage harris 7889
Call No.: ID:87-B21111
Status: Available

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