Notices Of The Leigh Park Estate, Near Havant. 1836. [Epigraphs]
RA Collection: Book
Record number
06/2939
Imprint
London:: Edmund Lloyd, Harley-Street. For Private Circulation only., MDCCCXXXVI.
Physical Description
[4], 44 p., frontis.; 212 mm. (Octavo.)
Contents
[Half-t., frontis., t.p.] - [Text] - Appendix. List Of Pictures At No. 17 Devonshire Street, London.
Responsibility Note
The frontispiece is signed as 'On zinc by L. Haghe'. It carries the printers' imprint of Day & Haghe.
The text printer is named on the title-page verso: 'Printed By A.J. Valpy, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.'
Summary Note
The owner of Leigh Park, Sir George Thomas Staunton, had worked in China and was a student of Chinese society, and from 1839 to 1859 served the Royal Academy as Secretary for Foreign Correspondence. He bought Leigh Park in Hampshire in 1819, and added a Gothic library and hothouses for his exotic plants. This work includes a list of pictures at his London house.
The frontispiece is captioned, 'Leigh Park, The Seat Of Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bart.'
Binding Note
19th-century brown cloth-covered boards, upper cover lettered 'Leigh Park'.
Paintings, European - History
Collections - Great Britain - London - 19th century
Country houses - Great Britain - Hampshire - Havant - Leigh Park - 19th century
Catalogues - Great Britain - 19th century