Sixty-four engravings by Kip, the Dutch engraver, were included in Sir Robert Atkyns’ The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire, posthumously published in 1712. Individual engravings are often reproduced to illustrate an article or to show what a house looked like, for instance in the Buildings of Gloucestershire. The whole set was reprinted in 1974 in a large format, together with a separate volume reproducing Atkyns’ text, but they are cumbersome and expensive books to buy second-hand. The newly-published book offers all sixty-four engravings, reproduced in a manageable but larger format than is usual, has an introduction exploring what is known of the life of Johannes (or John if Anglicised) Kip, and has a commentary on each engraving, suggesting some of the context and interesting detail of each. And this at a very modest price of £20.
Anthea Jones will present a selection of the interesting features in this talk.
Johannes Kip: the Gloucestershire Engravings
Edited by Anthea Jones (Hobnob Press 2021)
Available in GFHS Shop
Anthea Jones was Head of History and Director of Studies at Cheltenham Ladies’ College before retirement. She is author of A Thousand Years of the English Parish and several books on Gloucestershire local history and has edited Dissenters’ Meeting House Certificates and Registrations in the Record Series of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. She enjoys walking and gardening.
John Chandler: formerly a librarian, and then freelance historical researcher and writer, works as an editor for the Victoria County History in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, and for the last twenty years has been designing and publishing books, mostly about west country history, under the imprint Hobnob Press .
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