series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland
Subtitle: with descriptive and historical letterpress
By: edited by F. O. Morris.
Contributors: Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893 (printer); Lydon, A. F.; Leighton, John, 1822-1912.
Publisher: William Mackenzie
Published: 1866
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Castles -- Great Britain; Castles -- Ireland.; Manors -- Great Britain; Manors -- Ireland.
Other titles: County seats of the noblemen & gentlemen of Great Britain & Ireland.; The ancestral homes of Britain
Notes: Each volume with 40 plates (incl. added ill. t.p.), letterpress title page and table of contents.

Engravings by A.F. Lydon.

Printer's imprint in each volume: B. Fawcett, Engraver and Printer.

Includes index to the complete 6 vol. set - vol. 6, division 18, p. 81-88.

Vol. 1-4 (div. 1-12) with title: A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain; and imprint: Leeds : D. Banks.

Vol. 4, division 12, with extra plate of Mamhead not listed in the table of contents, and accompanying leaf of text with publisher's note indicating that it was intended to supplement the view of Mamhead in vol. 3, division 7, at the request of the owner Sir Lydston Newman.

Vol. 1 prev. pub. under the title: The ancestral homes of Britain. London, 1868.

MASS copy 1: Vol. 1-4 bound in red sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind, with view of Balmoral Castle. Vol. 5-6 bound in red sand-grain cloth with the same blind blocked design as vol. 1-4, but with a different gold blocked central panel with royal arms and title, signed JL [i.e. John Leighton]. With the bookplate of Ruari McLean in division 1, and an extra copy of division 1.

MASS copy 2: Lacking v. 5-6, and final unnumbered page [91] of vol.1. Bound in red sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind, with view of Balmoral Castle, as copy 1.

MASS copy 3: Lacking all except divisions 2-6. Bound in red straight grain morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind, in a different design to copy 1-2.