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

The baronial halls, and ancient picturesque edifices of England / from drawings by J.D. Harding, G. Cattermole, S. Prout, W. Muller, J. Holland, and other eminent artists ; executed in coloured lithotints by Day and son and Hanhart ; the text by S.C. Hall, F.S.A. ; embellished with numerous engravings on wood.

Accession number
PML 146537-38
Creator
Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889.
Published
London : Willis and Sotheran, 1858.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Second ed.; originally published: London : Chapman and Hall, 1848; the plates in this edition printed in colors and re-lithographed throughout. Cf. Abbey for details.
Illustrated with numerous wood engravings throughout the text after F.W. Fairholt, F.W. Hulme, and Thomas Allom; with 71 double-tinted lithographs after drawings by J.D. Harding, G. Cattermole, S. Prout, C.J. Richardson, H.L. Pratt, J.G. Jackson, F.W. Fairholt, T. Allom, W. Müller, J. Holland, and others.
Despite the claims of the title page, most or all of the plates for this edition appear to have been re-executed in the more usual "chalk" or "crayon" manner lithographic technique as opposed to the distinctive lithotint process employed for the first edition of 1848.
Plates signed "Day & Son Lithrs. to the Queen"; with several of them additionally signed "on Stone by W. Walton".
Description
2 v. ([248] p., [71] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 45 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of J.H. Wolcott; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Brown morocco tooled in gilt.
Classification
Department