Accession number
PML 146002-03
Creator
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Published
London : Printed for R. Ackermann ... by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 373, Strand, 1812.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Text by William Combe.
Dedication signed: R. Ackermann.
Illustrated with 1 plan, 1 stipple engraved portrait of William Vincent, Dean of Westminster, 1 line engraving, and 80 hand colored aquatints by J. Bluck, T. Sutherland, Hamble, F.C. Lewis, etc., after F. Mackenzie, A. Pugin, Huet-Villiers, W.J. White, T. Uwins, G. Shepherd, and others.
Half-title reads: The history of St. Peter's Westminster.
Vol. 2 has added engraved t.p.: Westminster Abbey and the monuments. Forming a companion and continuation of the Microcosm of London. Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of arts ... in sixteen monthly numbers.
Plate 4, the added engraved t.p. of v. 2, is known to exist in two states. In one state it is signed: F. Mackenzie delt; in the other: A. Pugin delt. Cf. Abbey.
The second state, with the first plate in v. II, "Aymer de Valence", signed "A. Pugin delt.".
Includes indexes.
"List of subscribers."--Vol. 1, p. [vii]-xiii.
"Arrangement of the plates."--[2] p. bound in v. 1.
Dedication signed: R. Ackermann.
Illustrated with 1 plan, 1 stipple engraved portrait of William Vincent, Dean of Westminster, 1 line engraving, and 80 hand colored aquatints by J. Bluck, T. Sutherland, Hamble, F.C. Lewis, etc., after F. Mackenzie, A. Pugin, Huet-Villiers, W.J. White, T. Uwins, G. Shepherd, and others.
Half-title reads: The history of St. Peter's Westminster.
Vol. 2 has added engraved t.p.: Westminster Abbey and the monuments. Forming a companion and continuation of the Microcosm of London. Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of arts ... in sixteen monthly numbers.
Plate 4, the added engraved t.p. of v. 2, is known to exist in two states. In one state it is signed: F. Mackenzie delt; in the other: A. Pugin delt. Cf. Abbey.
The second state, with the first plate in v. II, "Aymer de Valence", signed "A. Pugin delt.".
Includes indexes.
"List of subscribers."--Vol. 1, p. [vii]-xiii.
"Arrangement of the plates."--[2] p. bound in v. 1.
Description
2 v. : ill. (some col.), plan, port. ; 36 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of John Wild; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Brown russia with cathedral tooling in gilt and blind.
Classification
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