• Held At: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
• Title: 'Knowsley Clutterbuck': Grangerised copy of Robert Clutterbuck's History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford
• Description: Notes on original editions of Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire
  List of original illustrations
  Notes on Knowsley Clutterbuck
  List of original and additional illustrations in Knowsley Clutterbuck
  The work was published in three volumes folio, the first by Nichols, Son and Bentley in 1815, the second by John Nichols and Son in 1821 and the third by John Bowyer Nichols in 1827
  
  Vol 1
  Consists of title page, Dedication, List of Subscribers (ppi - viii), Preface (ppi - iii), Geographical Description (ppi-v), Early Inhabitants (ppiv-xvii), Civil and Ecclesiastical Division etc. (pp xviii-xxxvii) and historical text as follows:
  Hundred of Cashio pp1-274
  Hundred of Dacorum pp275-526
  Appendix : pp1-48
  Indexes pp49-106
  Errata p106
  
  Vol 2
  Consists of title page and historical text as follows:
  Hundred of Hertford pp1-241
  Hundred of Broadwater pp 243-554
  Appendix pp1-16
  Indexes pp17-73
  Errata p73
  
  Vol 3
  Consists of title page, Advertisement and historical text as follows:
  Hundred of Hitchin pp1-144
  Hundred of Braughing pp145-325
  Hundred of Edwinstree pp327-477
  Hundred of Odsey pp479-609
  Appendix pp611-619
  Indexes pp1-50
  Additional errata pp51-52
  Instructions to Binder foll.p52
  Interspersed among the three volumes are one double page and fifty-three full page illustrations which are listed on the following pages. The publication dates of some of the illustrations indicate that they were added to volumes 1 and 2 at or after the publication of volume 3.
  
  List of original illustrations
  
  Vol I
  Page: Before Geographical Description p.i Medium: engraving - double page spread Subject: Map of County of Hertford Artist: engr. J. Cross Date: 1827
  Page: Facing p.vii Medium: engraving Subject: "British map of Herts." Artist: Thomas Leman Date: 1814
  Page: Facing p.xix Medium: engraving Subject: "Roman map of Herts." Artist: Thomas Leman Date: 1814
  Page: Facing p.5 Medium: engraving Subject: Plan of Verulamium and coins Artist: dr. T. Godman engr. J. Lambert coins engr. H. Moses Date: 1814
  Page: Facing p.37 Medium: etching Subject: Seals of St. Albans Abbey and its cells Artist: etched E. Blore Date: 1824
  Page: After p.54 Medium: engraving Subject: Plan of town of St. Albans Artist: dr. T. Godman engr. E. Turrell Date: 1822
  Page: Facing p.55 Medium: engraving Subject: St. Albans Artist: dr. C Varley engr. G Cooke Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.59 Medium: engraving Subject: Interior, St. Albans Abbey Artist: dr. and engr. E. Blore Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.63 Medium: engraving Subject: Piscina, St. Albans Abbey Artist: dr. E. Blore engr. J Le Keux
  Page: Facing p.65 Medium: engraving Subject: Interior, St. Albans Abbey Artist: dr. F. Nash engr. H. Le Keux Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.67 Medium: engraving Subject: Brass of an abbot, St. Albans Abbey Artist: dr. E. Blore engr. E. Turrell Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.77 Medium: engraving Subject: Interior, St. Albans Abbey Artist: dr and engr. E. Blore Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.101 Medium: engraving Subject: Bacon monument in St. Michael's Church Artist: dr. W. Alexander engr. George Cooke Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.136 Medium: Engraving Subject: Aldenham Church Artist: Dr. W. Alexander engr. W.B. Cooke Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.138 Medium: engraving Subject: Monument in Aldenham Church Artist: dr. E. Blore engr. John Byrne Date: 1815
  Page: Following No. 15 Medium: engraving Subject: Effigies on monument in Aldenham Church Artist: dr. E. Blore engr. C. Stothard Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.174 Medium: engraving Subject: Abbots Langley Church Artist: dr. R. Clutterbuck engr. W.B. Cooke. Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.194 Medium: etching Subject: Moor Park House Artist: dr. and etched E. Blore Date: 1820
  Page: Facing p.202 Medium: engraving Subject: Rickmansworth Church Artist: dr. Thomas Hearne engr. John Pye Date: 1815
  Page: Following No. 19 Medium: engraving (hand coloured) Subject: East window of Rickmansworth Church Artist: dr. E. Blore engr. T. Woolnoth Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.225 Medium: engraving Subject: Sarratt Church Artist: dr. T. Hearne engr. W.B. Cooke Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.287 Medium: engraving Subject: Brass in Aldbury Church Artist: dr. R. Clutterbuck engr. James Basire Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.288 Medium: engraving Subject: Monument in Aldbury Church Artist: dr. E. Blore engr. W. Woolnoth Date: 1815
  Page: Following No.23 Medium: engraving Subject: Effigies in Aldbury and Berkhamsted churches Artist: dr. E. Blore engr. J. Scott Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.300 Medium: etching Subject: Berkhamsted Church Artist: dr. E. Clutterbuck etched Letitia Byrne Date:1815
  Page: Facing p.304 Medium: engraving Subject: Brass in Berkhamsted Church Artist: dr. R. Clutterbuck engr. John Lee Date: 1815
  Page: Following No. 26 Medium: engraving Subject: Monument in Berkhamsted Church Artist: dr. E. Blore engr. John Le Keux Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.341 Medium: engraving Subject: Bushey Church Artist: dr. T. Hearne engr. W.B. Cooke Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.344 Medium: lithograph Subject: Letters of King Charles II Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.369 Medium: engraving Subject: Flaunden Chapel Artist: dr. H. Munro engr. W.B. Cooke Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.421 Medium: engraving Subject: West Doorway, Hemel Hempstead Church Artist: dr. J.L. Bond engr. Edward Blore Date:1823
  Page: Facing p.422 Medium: engraving Subject: Brass in Hemel Hempstead Church Artist: dr. R. Clutterbuck engr. John Lee Date: 1815
  Page: Facing p.433 Medium: engraving Subject: Old Palace, Kings Langley Artist: dr. R. Clutterbuck engr. J.C. Allen Date: 1820
  Page: Facing p.464 Medium: engraving Subject: Brass in North Mymms Church Artist: dr. and engr. Edward Blore Date: 1823
  Page: Facing p.518 Medium: engraving Subject: Fonts in Aldenham, Hitchin, Offley, Stevenage, Ware and Wheathamstead Churches Artist: dr. R. Clutterbuck engr. E. Blore Date: 1815
  
  Vol II
  Page: Facing p 78 Medium: engraving Subject: Waltham Cross Artist: drawn by Edward Blore from Sketch by late William Alexander engraved by Henry Le Keux Date: 1822
  Page: Facing p.289 Medium: engraving Subject: Monument in Benington Church Artist: dr. W. Alexander engr. E. Blore Date: 1824
  Page: Facing p.336 Medium: engraving Subject: Old Palace, Hatfield Artist: dr. T. Herne engr. W.B. Cooke Date: 1820
  Page: Following No. 38 Medium: engraving Subject: Plan of Old Palace, Hatfield Artist: engr. E. Turrell.
  Page: Facing p.342 Medium: engraving Subject: Hatfield House Artist: dr. E. Blore engr. S. Middiman Date: 1824
  Page: Facing p381 Medium: engraving Subject: Brass in Knebworth Church Artist: drawn by Rev. Thomas Walton Artist: engraved by E Turrell Date: 1820
  Page: Facing p409 Medium: engraving Subject: Monument in Little Munden Church Artist: drawn by W Alexander engraved by J Le Keux
  Page: Facing p488 Medium: engraving Subject: Brass in Watton Church Artist: drawn by Edward Blore engraved by E Turrell
  
  Vol III
  Page: Facing p.5. Medium: engraving Subject: Ravensburgh Castle, Hexton Artist: drawn by Hyett, 1809 engraved by E Turrell Date: 1823
  Page: Facing p.12 Medium: engraving Subject: Plan of town of Hitchin Artist: engraved by E Turrell Date: 1820
  Page: Facing p.20 Medium: etching Subject: Seals of Priories of Hitchin, Kings Langley, Rowney, Royston, Sopwell, Wymondley and Ware (3) Artist: etched by Edward Blore Date: 1824
  Page: Facing p.37 Medium: engraving Subject: Porch, Hitchin Church Artist: drawn by Edward Blore engraved by John Le Keux Date: 1823
  Page: Facing p.149 Medium: lithograph Subject: Roman antiquities found at Braughing Artist: lithograph by M Gauci printed Charles Hullmandel Date: 1824
  Page: Facing p.226 Medium: lithograph Subject: Sir Ralph Sadleir Artist: lithograph by M Gauci printed Charles Hullmandel Date: 1824
  Page: Facing p.228 Medium: etching Subject: Standon Lordship Artist: drawn by Robert Clutterbuck etched Edward Blore Date: 1826
  Page: Facing p.234 Medium: engraving Subject: Monument in Standon Church Artist: drawn by Edward Blore engraved by J Godden Date: 1824
  Page: Facing p.244 Medium: engraving Subject: Rye House, Stanstead Abbots Artist: drawn by H Edridge engraved by W B Cooke Date: 1824
  Page: Facing p.285 Medium: etching Subject: The Bed of Ware Artist: drawn by Robert Clutterbuck etched by Edward Blore Date: 1824
  Page: Facing p.488 Medium: engraving Subject: Ashwell Church Artist: drawn by J Harraden engraved by George Cooke Date: 1826
  
• Date: 1640 - c1841
• Extent: 10 volumes
• Accession Number: Acc 3732
• Document Reference: DZ/119
• Ref No: CDZ119
• Creator Name: Clutterbuck, Robert, fl 1841, of Hertfordshire
• Administrative or Biographical History: The early history of this grangerised version of Clutterbuck's History of Hertford is obscure. The title page of the first volume is dated 1832 and probably indicates when the project was begun. The fact that the tenth and last volume contains a few Buckler drawings dated 1840 may show when it was finished. The dedication adds a little more: "To John Morice Esq., FSA this Collection of Drawings made under his munificent patronage.....is most respectfully inscribed by his obliged and humble servants, John Buckler, J C Buckler." It has not been possible to discover who this John Morice was. It is known that he lived in Upper Gower Street, London, and it may perhaps be inferred that he was in some way related to the Rev. Henry Morice, vicar of Ashwell from 1812 to 1851, as the engraving of Ashwell Church included in vol 3 of the original edition, p 488, was presented by John Morice. No other mention of him has been found. Why he caused this collection to be made and for whom it was intended are equally obscure. A book plate in the first volume gives us the first solid fact. It shows that at some time the work became part of the library of Leonard L Hartley. Born Leonard L Campbell in 1816, the son of a surgeon at Bedale, Yorkshire, named Archibald Campbell, he succeeded to the name and fortune (and apparently the arms) of his maternal uncle, George Hartley of Middleton Tyas, Yorks., where he collected a library of some 60,000 books mainly on topography. These were sold by his executor in 1885. We next hear of the volumes when they were bought by Lord Derby in 1900 from Messrs Robson and Kerslake of Coventry Street, London, and it was from that Lord Derby's grandson that the Hertfordshire County Council purchased them in 1951. For this reason it is normally referred to as THE KNOWSLEY CLUTTERBUCK
  The compilation contains approximately 1700 drawings and prints which can be divided as follows:
  Original drawings -
  Topographical and antiquarian 1060
  Portrait 30
  Prints -
  Topographical and antiquarian 240
  Portrait 370
  Among the prints are all of the fifty-four illustrations belonging to the original edition, mainly in proof copies, together with some pre-proof copies and other variants. In describing the prints the term 'etching' has been employed only when that word is actually included in the print. Where no description of the medium is given 'engraving' is normally used, whether engraved by tool, acid or both. Because the compilors of the volumes trimmed many of the prints - sometimes drastically - plate marks are often missing. Consequently there are probably instances in which engravings or etchings have been described as lithographs; to the untutored eye many early lithographs are indistinguishable from engravings.
  Over-trimming was executed even more disastrously on some of the original drawings. The over-whelming majority of these are by the Bucklers, whose styles are so similar that, to the layman at least, there is no telling them apart. Trimming off the signatures has resulted in more Buckler drawings being unascribed to the individual artist than there are signed ones. This is equally applicable to the other artists represented. George Sidney Shepherd's style and method are so individual that it has been possible to attribute several unsigned drawings to him with some confidence - and some with rather less. The two artists referred to in the index of original drawings as "X" and "Y" also have recognizable individual traits but, as none of their drawings bears a signature, it has been impossible to assign names to them. It is probable that too many have been ascribed to J [John] Carter. Some of them may be by Stockdale of whose drawings there is only one signed example.
  The addition of 1700 drawings and prints obviously increased the size of the work. From the three volumes of the original edition it grew to ten which divide the three between them as follows:
  DZ/119
  KNOWSLEY ORIGINAL
  Volume 1 contains Vol 1 pp 1-112
  Volume 2 Vol 1 pp 113-254
  Volume 3 Vol 1 pp 255-410
  Volume 4 Vol 1 pp 411-526
  Volume 5 Vol 2 pp 1-220
  Volume 6 Vol 2 pp 221-372
  Volume 7 Vol 2 pp 373-554
  Volume 8 Vol 3 pp 1-202
  Volume 9 Vol 3 pp 203-392
  Volume 10 Vol 3 pp 393-609
  The additional pages have been foliated according to the number of the page which they follow, with the addition of letters. Thus, for instance, in Vol 10 following p 494 is folio 494A containing in recto an engraving of James Earl of Salisbury as a child and in verso a Buckler of Bygrave church. Folios 494B and C are blank in recto and have further Bucklers in verso. There appears to be no recognizable system governing the side of the paper illustrations occupy. In the indexes location is given by volume and folio. Thus the engraving mentioned above is located at 10:494A and the drawing of Bygrave church on 10:494A verso. The words 'verso' and 'recto' are normally omitted from the indexes, unless their omission would cause confusion. Users of the indexes are advised to look on both sides of the folio to which they are directed.
• Custodial History: The early history of this grangerised version of Clutterbuck's History of Hertford is obscure. The title page of the first volume is dated 1832 and probably indicates when the project was begun. The fact that the tenth and last volume contains a few Buckler drawings dated 1840 may show when it was finished. The dedication adds a little more: "To John Morice Esq., FSA this Collection of Drawings made under his munificent patronage.....is most respectfully inscribed by his obliged and humble servants, John Buckler, J C Buckler." It has not been possible to discover who this John Morice was. It is known that he lived in Upper Gower Street, London, and it may perhaps be inferred that he was in some way related to the Rev. Henry Morice, vicar of Ashwell from 1812 to 1851, as the engraving of Ashwell Church included in vol 3 of the original edition, p 488, was presented by John Morice. No other mention of him has been found. Why he caused this collection to be made and for whom it was intended are equally obscure. A book plate in the first volume gives us the first solid fact. It shows that at some time the work became part of the library of Leonard L Hartley. Born Leonard L Campbell in 1816, the son of a surgeon at Bedale, Yorkshire, named Archibald Campbell, he succeeded to the name and fortune (and apparently the arms) of his maternal uncle, George Hartley of Middleton Tyas, Yorks., where he collected a library of some 60,000 books mainly on topography. These were sold by his executor in 1885. We next hear of the volumes when they were bought by Lord Derby in 1900 from Messrs Robson and Kerslake of Coventry Street, London, and it was from that Lord Derby's grandson that the Hertfordshire County Council purchased them in 1951. For this reason it is normally referred to as THE KNOWSLEY CLUTTERBUCK
  The compilation contains approximately 1700 drawings and prints which can be divided as follows:
  Original drawings -
  Topographical and antiquarian 1060
  Portrait 30
  Prints -
  Topographical and antiquarian 240
  Portrait 370
  Among the prints are all of the fifty-four illustrations belonging to the original edition, mainly in proof copies, together with some pre-proof copies and other variants. In describing the prints the term 'etching' has been employed only when that word is actually included in the print. Where no description of the medium is given 'engraving' is normally used, whether engraved by tool, acid or both. Because the compilors of the volumes trimmed many of the prints - sometimes drastically - plate marks are often missing. Consequently there are probably instances in which engravings or etchings have been described as lithographs; to the untutored eye many early lithographs are indistinguishable from engravings.
  Over-trimming was executed even more disastrously on some of the original drawings. The over-whelming majority of these are by the Bucklers, whose styles are so similar that, to the layman at least, there is no telling them apart. Trimming off the signatures has resulted in more Buckler drawings being unascribed to the individual artist than there are signed ones. This is equally applicable to the other artists represented. George Sidney Shepherd's style and method are so individual that it has been possible to attribute several unsigned drawings to him with some confidence - and some with rather less. The two artists referred to in the index of original drawings as "X" and "Y" also have recognizable individual traits but, as none of their drawings bears a signature, it has been impossible to assign names to them. It is probable that too many have been ascribed to J [John] Carter. Some of them may be by Stockdale of whose drawings there is only one signed example.
  The addition of 1700 drawings and prints obviously increased the size of the work. From the three volumes of the original edition it grew to ten which divide the three between them as follows:
  DZ/119
  KNOWSLEY ORIGINAL
  Volume 1 contains Vol 1 pp 1-112
  Volume 2 Vol 1 pp 113-254
  Volume 3 Vol 1 pp 255-410
  Volume 4 Vol 1 pp 411-526
  Volume 5 Vol 2 pp 1-220
  Volume 6 Vol 2 pp 221-372
  Volume 7 Vol 2 pp 373-554
  Volume 8 Vol 3 pp 1-202
  Volume 9 Vol 3 pp 203-392
  Volume 10 Vol 3 pp 393-609
  The additional pages have been foliated according to the number of the page which they follow, with the addition of letters. Thus, for instance, in Vol 10 following p 494 is folio 494A containing in recto an engraving of James Earl of Salisbury as a child and in verso a Buckler of Bygrave church. Folios 494B and C are blank in recto and have further Bucklers in verso. There appears to be no recognizable system governing the side of the paper illustrations occupy. In the indexes location is given by volume and folio. Thus the engraving mentioned above is located at 10:494A and the drawing of Bygrave church on 10:494A verso. The words 'verso' and 'recto' are normally omitted from the indexes, unless their omission would cause confusion. Users of the indexes are advised to look on both sides of the folio to which they are directed.
• Acquisition: Immediate Source of Acquisition [Acc 3732]; Purchased March 1954
• Legal Status: public
• Level: Fonds
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