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Twelve beautiful specimens of the ecclesiastical architecture of the Middle Ages : selected from the cathedrals of England. With letterpress descriptions / the original drawings by Charles Wild ...

Accession number
PML 146512.1
Creator
Wild, Charles, 1781-1835.
Published
[London : s.n., 1828]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from LC and additional sources.
Also known as: Wild's English cathedrals.
Aquatints mounted on leaves of cardstock tipped into binding on linen stubs.
Library's copy lacks the 2 preliminary pages accounted for in descriptions of some copies and the original portfolio and letterpress caption slips described in Abbey.
Description
2 p., 12 leaves of plates : all ill. (hand col. aquatint) ; 48 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Captions written in black ink on verso of individual plates, in some instances inscribed "C. Wild", possibly in the artist's hand.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/2 black morocco; lettered in gold on front board: English & Foreign Cathedrals. C. Wild.
Classification
Department