Accession number
PML 146514
Published
Birmingham [England] : Beilby, Knott and Beilby, 1829.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated with 32 steel engraved plates and 12 textual vignettes by William Radclyffe after Peter DeWint, J.D. Harding, William Westall, David Cox , J.V. Barber, Henry Hutchinson, and Frederick Mackenzie; text attributed to Alexander Blair. Cf. Hunnisett.
Library's copy is the large paper issue, with the plates present in both preliminary etched and proof states, both printed en chine collé, and steel engraved vignettes in proof state.
"Birmingham : Thomas Knott, Jun., Printer."--T.p. verso.
Library's copy is the large paper issue, with the plates present in both preliminary etched and proof states, both printed en chine collé, and steel engraved vignettes in proof state.
"Birmingham : Thomas Knott, Jun., Printer."--T.p. verso.
Description
128, [4] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. (steel engraving) ; 37 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Charles William Packe; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Green morocco tooled in gilt by W. Barrett of Ipswich.
Classification
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