Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Morgan, John Minter, 1782-1854
Title:
The Christian commonwealth / by John Minter Morgan.
Published / Created:
London : Published by Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, 1845.
Physical Description:
[6], 40, x p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
HX632 .M67 1845+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Lithographs by H.C. Maguire. Printed by M. & N. Hanhart.

With an illustration of the proposed community printed "in oil colours" by George Baxter.

Printed by M'Gowan & Co., Great Windmill Street.

Errata slip tipped in.

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 448

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in blind- stamped brown publisher's cloth. Title stamped in gilt on front cover. Ms inscription on recto of first free endpaper: Thomas Slingsby Duncombe Esqr. M. P. from the author.
Subject Terms:
Christian communities. | Agricultural colonies. | Utopias. | Chapman and Hall -- Publisher. | M. & N. Hanhart -- Printer. | M'Gowan & Co. -- Printer. | Morgan, John Minter, 1782–1854 -- Pres. insc. to Thomas Slingsby Duncombe. | Duncombe, Thomas Slingsby -- Pres. insc. from John Minter Morgan.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1845 . | Baxter prints -- 1845.
Contributors:
Maguire, H. C., active approximately 1850–1880, engraver. | Baxter, George, 1804–1867, engraver.