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St. Paul's Cathedral collection, volume 5 : prints and printed materials, ca. 1700-1899.

BIB_ID
126935
Accession number
MA 424
Display Date
ca. 1700-1899.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 v. (ca. 189 p.), bound : ill. ; 56.3 cm
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1906.
Summary
The St. Paul's Cathedral collection (MA 420-424) includes autograph letters and documents from various people with some relation to St. Paul's Cathedral. Individual items in the collection are separately cataloged; other items have been removed from the volumes and are separately housed and individually cataloged. Volume 5 (MA 424) contains 96 engravings related to St. Paul's Cathedral (MA 424.1-96). The volume also includes the following printed works: "St. Paul's Cathedral Church, London," a 4-p. excerpt from an unidentified book (pages are numbered 39-42); "St. Paul's Cathedral," a 16-p. excerpt from Winkles's Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales ... with descriptions by Thomas Moule (London: Effingham Wilson and Charles Tilt, 1836), v. 1, p. [65]-80; The Order of Proceeding in the Public Funeral of the Late Field-Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, K.G. (London: s.n., 1852), 13 p. (cataloged separately as MA 424.1a); a broadside about a sermon to be preached before the Duke of Wellington on Sunday morning, 12th June (printed by W.B. Roberts, Whitechapel), 1 p.; and An Historical Description of St. Paul's Cathedral (London: J. Newbery, 1753), iv, 56 p. (cataloged separately as MA 424.1b).