A hand-book for the architecture, tapestries, paintings, gardens, and grounds of Hampton Court
Subtitle: with numerous embellishments : to which are added, extracts from public records, now first printed, illustrative of the original building and extent of Hampton Court Palace, the state of the arts, and the value of artisans' labour during the Tudor period
By: by Felix Summerly [i.e. Sir Henry Cole], author of Hand-books for the National Gallery, Westminster Abbey, etc. etc.
Contributors: Cox, David, 1809-1885.; Pyne, Charles Claude, 1802-1878.; Williams, M. A. 1788-; Thompson, Isabel A., engraver; Clarke, H. L. fl. 1840s.; Thompson, Eliza, engraver.; Waterhouse, Annie, fl. 1850s.; Jobbins, J. R. d. 1866.
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: George Bell
Published: 1843
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)
Other titles: Hampton Court; Hampton Court :
Notes: "The Copyright of this Work is registered pursuant to Act of Parliament 5 & 6 Vict. c. 45."--Half-title verso.

Added lithographed illustrated t.p.

T.p. printed with author's monogram: "FS".

"The most important additions to the present revised and enlarged edition, are the Historical Notes and Illustrations ... In other respects, the general plan of the Handbook remains much the same as in the first edition, published in 1841.  I mention the date lest any likeness between the present and other works on the same subject should lead to the inference that I had been borrowing freely elsewhere."--Preface.

Includes "A List of the Embellishments.": p. [8]

Wood engraved illustrations are engraved by Mary Anne Williams, Anne Cowper, Isabel Thompson, Laura Bond, Charlotte Bond, Harriet Clarke, Augusta Thompson, Eliza Thompson, Anne Waterhouse, Mary Clint, Juliet L. Dudley and Fanny Clarke after David Cox, jun., Henry Cole, Charles C. Pyne, John Thompson, Thurston Thompson and Richard Thompson.

Preliminary lithographed folded map entitled: "Map of the Honor of Hampton Court. Reduced from a survey in the office of H. M. Commissioners of Woods & Forests.".  Map is with imprint: "J. R. Jobbins, del et lith. 3, Warwick Ct.".  Map is hand-coloured.

Wood-engraved plate is with signatures: "David Cox, Jun. Delt." and "Mary Ann Williams".

Plate [6] entitled "Plan of the Principal Floor of Hampton Court Palace.".  Plan is with hand-colouring and imprint: "J. R. Jobbins, del et Litho. 3, Warwick Ct.".

Plate [7] entitled "The Country 12 Miles around Hampton Court.".  Plate is with hand-colouring and imprint: "J. R. Jobbins, delt. & Sc., 3 Warwick Ct.

Includes "Index to the Historical Portraits": p. [140]-143.

"*This book is sold, by permission of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests, in the Palace of Hampton Court."--Colophon.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [2-5] include wood-engraved illustrations.

MASS copy: Bound in green vertical rib-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; t.e.g.  With white endpapers printed with triangular blue star pattern.  Upper free endpaper pasted with 17 x 11 cm. paper chromolithographed with full-page decorative monogram and border: "TWS".