Cathedral antiquities : historical and descriptive accounts, with 311 illustrations, of the following English cathedrals. Viz. Canterbury, York, Salisbury, Norwich, Winchester, Lichfield, Oxford, Wells, Exeter, Peterborough, Gloucester, Bristol, Hereford, and Worcester. The engravings, mostly by J. Le Keux, esq. from drawings by E. Blore ... F. Mackenzie ... G. Cattermole ... G.L. Taylor ... Edw. Cresey ... Jos. Gandy ... W.H. Bartlett, Esq. etc. etc. consist of ground plans, sections, elevations, details, views, and monuments of eminent personages / by John Britton.

Accession number: 
PML 145660-65
Author: 
Britton, John, 1771-1857.
Published: 
London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and T. Longman, jun., 1836.
Description: 
6 v. : ill., plans ; 34 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

"In six volumes."
With collective t.p., dated 1836, in all 6 volumes of the published set; each individual section also has an earlier individual engraved and letterpress t.p., with the original publication date for each of the 14 parts, which were originally published separately as a series from 1814 to 1835.
Includes indices.
Plates protected by guard sheets.
"C. Whittingham, Chiswick."--Colophon, v. 1.
Vol. 1, section 1: ii, 110 p., 26 leaves of plates; v. 1, section 2: vi, 96 p., 36 leaves of plates; v. 2, section 1: viii, 113 p., 26, 5 leaves of plates; v. 2, section 2: iv, 89 p., 25 leaves of plates; v. 3, section 1: iv, 138 p., 30 leaves of plates; v. 3, section 2: 74 p., 16 leaves of plates; v. 3, section 3: 50 p., 11 leaves of plates; v. 4, section 1: viii, 127 p., 22 leaves of plates; v. 4, section 2: 4, iv, 152, 22 leaves of plates; v. 5, section 1: viii, 88 p., 16 leaves of plates; v. 5, section 2: viii, 88, 18 p., 22 leaves of plates; v. 5, section 3: x, 78 p., 12 leaves of plates; v. 6, section 1: vii, 72 p., 17 leaves of plates; v. 6, section 2: xxxii, 24, 16 p., 16 leaves of plates.
Library's copy imperfect: lacking plate 25, v. 2, section 2.
Large paper issue.

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).
Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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