Accession number
PML 145666
Creator
Britton, John, 1771-1857.
Published
London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green ..., 1830.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Originally issued in six parts, 1828-1830.
Illustrated with 60 plates etched and engraved by J. Le Keux, J.C. Varrall, and others, chiefly after designs drafted by W.H. Bartlett from original drawings by G.F. Robson, along with wood engraved t.p. vignette and 23 wood engraved illustrations by Branston and Wright and S. William, also after Bartlett.
"The plates of Robson's views of cities will be destroyed after 250 large paper and 750 small paper are worked"--Address, verso of front wrapper of pt. 1 of "Picturesque antiquities of the English cities", Aug. 1, 1812, signed: J. Britton, June 21, 1828.
"C. Whittingham, Chiswick"--T.p. verso.
Plates protected by guard sheets.
The imperial large paper issue.
Illustrated with 60 plates etched and engraved by J. Le Keux, J.C. Varrall, and others, chiefly after designs drafted by W.H. Bartlett from original drawings by G.F. Robson, along with wood engraved t.p. vignette and 23 wood engraved illustrations by Branston and Wright and S. William, also after Bartlett.
"The plates of Robson's views of cities will be destroyed after 250 large paper and 750 small paper are worked"--Address, verso of front wrapper of pt. 1 of "Picturesque antiquities of the English cities", Aug. 1, 1812, signed: J. Britton, June 21, 1828.
"C. Whittingham, Chiswick"--T.p. verso.
Plates protected by guard sheets.
The imperial large paper issue.
Description
xii, 88 p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Green morocco tooled in gilt with the arms of the Dawson family, by J. Mackenzie; bound as part of a 15 volume set of works by John Britton (PML 145659-73).
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