A Picturesque Tour Through Holland, Brabant, And Part of France; Made in the Autumn of 1789. Illustrated with Copper Plates in Aqua Tints from Drawings Made on the Spot. By Samuel Ireland. Volumes One and Two. London; May 1st 1790, Printed for T. & I. Egerton, Whitehall.
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Provenance:
Armorial bookplate of "Joseph Granville Stuart Goff, Hale Park". Joseph (1851-1881) was the Justice of Peace for Hampshire and a lieutenant in the 43rd Regiment. Joseph inherited Hale Park from his grandfather, Joseph Goff (1778-1875), after his death. He remained the owner of the Park until his own death at the age of 30 in 1881. The house was later passed down to his brother, Gerald Lionel Joseph Goff (1855-1899), who was a colonel in the army.
Hale Park was build by Thomas Archer (1668-1743), a baroque architect and member of the Royal Household of Queen Anne (in 1705). Hale Park was build in 1712 after the demolition of an Elizabethan mansion designed by John Webb () for the Penruddock family. The House was Later remodelled in 1792 by Henry Holland, and then again in the 19th century by the Goff family.
Size: 160 x 240 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
Spines prominently rubbed and scuffed. Tooled labels present with very small fragments lacking from volume two, and large fragment from volume one. Boards loosely attached with cracked both joints and hinges of volume one, and front joint and hinge of volume two; wear to rear joint and hinge of volume one. Boards with minor scuffing, scratches, and rubbing. Shelf and edge wear. Minor shelf lean to volume two. Dulling to page edges. Bookplate attached to front pastedown in both volumes. Endpapers partially offset. Text blocks fairly clean with very sporadic very minor foxing, and offset pages facing plates. Plates toned. Uncollated but appears complete.
