Accession number
PML 145631-34
Creator
Britton, John, 1771-1857.
Published
London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme ..., 1807-26.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Added engraved t.p.'s.
Originally issued in parts.
Individual volumes include indices, with tables showing the placement of the plates bound in at the end of each.
Vol. 1: ii, [18], 16, 23, 34, 14, 6, 2, 6, [61] leaves of plates; v. 2: ii, 114, 6, [72] leaves of plates; v. 3: 6, 92, 6, [71] leaves of plates; v. 4: viii, 199, [1] (numbered as page 8), 4, 9-10, [75] leaves of plates.
Colophon, v. 3: "Harding and Wright, Printers, St. John's Square, London."; Colophon, v. 4: "Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London."
Library has volumes 1 through 4 only, published 1807-1814, lacking v. 5, which was published some 12 years after v. 4 in 1826.
Large paper issue.
Originally issued in parts.
Individual volumes include indices, with tables showing the placement of the plates bound in at the end of each.
Vol. 1: ii, [18], 16, 23, 34, 14, 6, 2, 6, [61] leaves of plates; v. 2: ii, 114, 6, [72] leaves of plates; v. 3: 6, 92, 6, [71] leaves of plates; v. 4: viii, 199, [1] (numbered as page 8), 4, 9-10, [75] leaves of plates.
Colophon, v. 3: "Harding and Wright, Printers, St. John's Square, London."; Colophon, v. 4: "Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London."
Library has volumes 1 through 4 only, published 1807-1814, lacking v. 5, which was published some 12 years after v. 4 in 1826.
Large paper issue.
Description
5 v., [356] leaves of plates : ill., plans (engraving) ; 34 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of the book's dedicatee, the Marquis of Stafford; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Dark blue morocco tooled in gilt with the gilt arms of George Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquis of Stafford; bound as a set with Britton's "Dictionary of the architecture and archeology of the middle ages" (PML 145635).
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