Description

Identification note: purchased in 1993 with the help of the Victoria and Albert Museum purchase fund

Summary: leather bound book containing John Britton memorabilia, including a portrait, details of the Britton Club and letters from John Britton and his wife Ellen to William Tite and his wife; poems and engravings, and including a biography of William Henry Bartlett and a memoir of Edward Wedlake Brayley. The book was compiled by Frederick Hendriks, and came from the collections of the architect, Sir William Tite. Contains the bookplate of Frederick Hendriks 1893.