Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved =, [172-?]
- Title(s):
- Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the citty of London, neatly engraved = Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le Ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement.
- Additional Title(s):
- Veues des toutes les endroites que est plus remarquable aussi bien celles dans le Ville de Londre que d'alentour, gravé fort curieusement
- Published/Created:
- [London] : Printed & sold by Hen. Overton at ye White Horse without Newgate & Tho. Glass under ye Royal Exchange, Cornhill, [172-?]
- Physical Description:
- [74] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 32 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsDA682 .P76 1720+Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3477525
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Title from engraved title page of the first part.
Engravings are unsigned.
Publication date from Adams.
Intended to be issued in parts of twelve plates each, with the first plate of each part also serving as a title page. Only title pages to parts one and two are known. Cf. Adams.
Includes illustrations based on the engravings in Joseph Smith's Nouveau Théâtre de la Grande Bretagne (1707) and John Stow's A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster (1720). Cf. Adams.
Guildhall Library copy has 74 plates. Cf. Adams.
BAC: British Art Center copy has 55 plates, including engraved title pages to parts 1 and 2. Bound in blind- and gilt-tooled calf. Armorial bookplates of Nathan of Churt, Sir Ashton Lever, and Richard Blackett Beaumont.
Adams, B. London illustrated, 26 - Subject Terms:
- Beaumont, Richard Blackett -- Bookplate.Engraving -- Specimens -- 172-.Glass, Thomas -- Bookseller.Hoole, J. -- Bookseller.Lever, Ashton, Sir, 1729-1788 -- Bookplate.London (England) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800.London (England) -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800.Nathan, of Churt -- Bookplate.Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676-1751 -- Printer.
- Form/Genre:
- Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
Buildings -- England -- London.
Historic buildings -- England -- London.
Castles & palaces -- England -- London.
Hospitals -- England -- London.
Churches -- England -- London. - Export:
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