Shelfmark
Fs.1.17(01)
Author
Uniform title
[Antiquities of Westminster. Supplement. 1807-1809]
Title
Sixty-two additional plates to Smith's Antiquities of Westminster, : most respectfully dedicated to the King, (by his Majesty's gracious permission.).
Publication, distribution, etc.
London. : Published as the Act directs by J.T. Smith, No. 4, Polygon, Somer's Town., [1807-1809]
Physical description
Etch. title-plate, [62] leaves of plates : all ill. (maps, plans) ; 34 cm. (4to)
Note
Etched and engraved throughout; title from engraved title-plate, which is hand-coloured in the present copy.
Note
Issued in parts between late 1807 and 1809. A note at the end of Smith's Vindication (issued with at least some copies of the first four supplementary plates) records the loss of a great number of copies of the Antiquities of Westminster and over five thousand prints in a fire at the printer Bensley's warehouse. In order to recoup his losses, Smith increased the number of the supplementary plates, issuing them in parts between 1808 and 1809 with an etched title-plate reading Sixty-two additional plates to Smith's Antiquities of Westminster.
Note
At least one copy was issued with a letterpress list of plates (cf. BAL Early Imprints catalogue).
Citation/references note
Nash, Paul W., Savage, Nicholas, et al. Early printed books 1478-1840: catalogue of the British Architectural Library Early Imprints Collection (London: Bowker-Saur/Saur, 1994-2003), 3080
Provenance
Ms. inscription at head of title: Henry Munn. 1815.
Binding
Contemporary 19th-century full russia in the style of Kalthoeber; neoclassical gold-tooled palmette and anthemion border within thin-thick-thin gold fillets; quatrefoil corner ornaments; gold-tooled Greek key roll on turn-ins; marbled fore-edges; rebacked in 20th-century calf by R.L. Day, five gold-tooled false bands; gold-tooled palmette in compartments, direct-lettered in gold.
Binding
Binder's stamp of R.L. Day.
Copy-specific note
With this is bound: Mr. John Thomas Smith's vindication, [London, 1808].
Subject
Subject
Subject
Westminster (London, England) Antiquities Pictorial works.
Added entry--name
Smith, John Thomas, 1766 - 1833 publisher.
Added entry--name
Kalthoeber, Christian Samuel, fl. 1780 - 1817 bookbinder attributed name.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B40483