The monumental effigies of Great Britain : selected from our cathedrals and churches for the purpose of bringing together, and preserving correct representations of the best historical illustrations extant, from the Norman conquest to the reign of Henry the Eighth / by C.A. Stothard.

Colored t.p. ornament; added hand colored t.p. for the 1832 "Introductions and descriptions for Stothard's monumental effigies of Great Britain" by Alfred John Kempe.
Illustrated with 148 etched plates, dated 1811-1827, most of them tinted and many of them fully or partly hand colored; along with numerous headpieces and fully colored and illuminated armorial tailpieces and ornaments.
Plates originally issued in 12 parts, ca. 1812-1832, the first 9 numbers being completed by Stothard during his lifetime and the final three numbers completed and belatedly issued after his death, with part no. 10 consisting chiefly of plates executed by Stothard himself and nos. 11 and 12 etched from his designs by Robert Stothard, Bartholomew Howlett, and C.J. Smith; hand coloring by Edward Davis and heraldic painter and illuminator Thomas Dowse.
With "Introductions and descriptions ... by Alfred John Kempe ... 1832", comprising 4 etched plates, a 23 p. introduction, and 112 p. of descriptive text posthumously issued to accompany Stothard's etchings.
Library's copy is the large paper issue, containing the 2 cancelled plates of Sir Bernard Brocas and the fully colored Fauntevraud plate (the latter included as a frontispiece).