The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation / illustrated by John Preston Neale ; the whole of the literary department by Edward Wedlake Brayley.

Accession number: 
PML 145708-09
Author: 
Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854.
Published: 
London : Published by the proprietor, J.P. Neale, and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818-1823.
Description: 
2 v. ([18], 227, [19], 72, [10] p.; 304, [40] p., 61 leaves of plates) : ill. (engraving) ; 38 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Added engraved t.p.'s in both volumes, with title: Westminster Abbey.
"T. Davison, Lombard-Street, Whitefriars, London."--Colophon, v. 1.
Each plate is accompanied by a guard sheet.
With a list of subscribers at front of v. 1.
Vol. 2: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co.
Includes indexes.
Plates by C. Armstrong, John LeKeux, R. Roffe, W. Radclyffe, J. Roffe, R. Sands, John Cleghorn, G. Cooke, H. Moses, J. Carter, Henry LeKeux, J.C. Varrall, J. Lewis, Miss E. Byrne, T. Matthews, W. Woolnoth, W.R. Smith, W.D. Taylor, J. Tingle, John Scott, and J. Byrne; after designs by J.P. Neale, J.R. Thompson, and J. Stephanoff.
Library's copy is the large paper issue, with the 61 engravings after Neale in proof state.

Binding: 
Blue morocco tooled in gilt.
Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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