Shelfmark
Fs.1.17(02) [Copy 1]
Additional shelfmark
Gi.3.14 [Copy 2]
Author
Title
Mr. John Thomas Smith's Vindication: : being an answer to a pamphlet, written, and published, by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq. F.A.S. concerning Mr. J. T. S.'s conduct to Mr. H. in relation to the "Antiquities of Westminster."
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Vindication
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London? : J.T. Smith?, [1808]
Physical description
16 p. ; 34 cm. (4to)
Note
No title-page; title from caption title on p. 1.
Note
Note below caption title: N.B. To be bound up with the Work, immediately after the "Advertisement".
Note
Place and date of publication from Bodleian Library catalogue.
Note
Issued with at least some copies of the first four supplementary plates to Smith's Antiquities of Westminster; a note at the end 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.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Ms. inscription at head of title of bound-with item: Henry Munn. 1815.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Binding
[Copy 1] 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. Binder's stamp of R.L. Day.
Binding
[Copy 2] ?19th-century quarter-bound purple paper and dark green morocco over mill/pasteboards. Covers decorated with blind fillets and roll on leather corners and border. Spine with ten raised bands, decorated blind tools, gilt dotted roll, armorial, and titling ("Continuat. to Smith's Westminster"). Textblock untrimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Bound with: Smith, John Thomas. Sixty-two additional plates to Smith's Antiquities of Westminster. London, [1807-1809].
Subject
Smith, John Thomas, 1766 - 1833 Antiquities of Westminster.
Subject
Hawkins, John Sidney Correct statement and vindication of the conduct of J.S. Hawkins towards J.T. Smith.
Added entry--name
Smith, John Thomas, 1766 - 1833 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Kalthoeber, Christian Samuel, fl. 1780 - 1817 binder, attributed name.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B40485