Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Sold here in monthly parts price 1s. 6 d. : London interiors a series of one hundred & fifty views of the interiors of the more celebrated metropolitan buildings.

Accession number
PML 196071.37
Published
London : George Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane, and all booksellers, [1841?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated with a backdrop showing a sunset or sunrise, printed in beige, brown, mustard-yellow, and black.
Illustration is probably a relief etching printed by Sly using a color relief printing process obtained from Charles Knight who originally patented the technique ca. 1838. Cf. B. Gascoigne. Milestones in colour printing 1457-1859. United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 48-49.
"Each Interior will contain a View of the Ceremony or Business Peculiar to the Edifice. Each Part will contain Two Plates with Eight Pages of Descriptive Letter-press."
At foot of sheet: Engraved and printed by Stephen Sly & Co. patent colour printers, 83, Cornwall Road, Stamford Street, Blackfriars.
Entire text transcribed.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department