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CROGGON, W.R.
[Sale catalogue. 1834:07:30--31]
Catalogue of the surplus and splendid collection of sculpture, in Coade's imperishable stone, comprising a magnificent colossal group of Polypheme with Acis & Galatea, Apollo Belvidere, Gladiators, Venus, ... and a great variety of other works; also about thirty excellent marble chimney pieces, ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. W.R. Croggon, on the premises, Palace Row, New Road, opposite to Tottenham Court Road, on Wednesday, July 30, 1834, and following day, ... by order of the proprietors, who, in consequence of the above premises being disposed of, are removing to their Manufactory Belvidere Road Lambeth. ...
London (Place), J. Unwin, printer, 5, St. Peter's Alley, Cornhill,, [1834].
12 p. ; 21.4 cm. (4°)

Not in Lugt. William Croggon (fl. 1814--35), a manager at the Coade Artificial Stone Manufactory in Lambeth, bought the business after Eleanor Coade's death in 1821 and made Coade stone for decorative work at Buckingham Palace and other sites, with a second manufactory listed a New Road St Pancras in directories after 1826, but went bankrupt in 1833. See Alison Kelly, Mrs Coade's stone (Upton-upon-Severn, Worcs, 1990), pp. 49--50, 301--9.

Copy Notes Bound in a collection of sale catalogues.

Binding Recent half goatskin.

Reference Number 2013

Additional Names Croggon, William (fl.$1814--35)


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