Shelfmark
Ce.1.01
Author
Topham, John, 1746 - 1803
Title
Some account of the collegiate chapel of Saint Stephen, Westminster. / By John Topham, esq.
Varying form of title
Cover title: Some account of the collegiate chapel of Saint Stephen, Westminster; with plans, elevations, sections, and specimens of the architecture and ornaments of such parts of it as are now remaining.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : published by the order and at the expence of the Society of Antiquaries of London., [1795].
Physical description
[10] p., XIV plates : ill. ; 68 cm. (Fol.)
Note
Printed label pasted onto front board: Some account of the collegiate chapel of Saint Stephen, Westminster; with plans, elevations, sections, and specimens of the architecture and ornaments of such parts of it as are now remaining. Published by the order and at the expence of the Society of Antiquaries of London. -- London: printed by W. Bulmer and co. and sold at the apartments of the Society in Somerset Place; and by Messrs. White, Robson, Nicol, Leigh and Sotheby, Brown and Egerton.
Note
Plates are signed thus: Engraved by James Basire from drawings by Mr. John Carter. Sumptibus Soc. Antiquar. Londini. Published according to an act of parliament, 23d April 1795.
Provenance
Storer bequest booklabel dated 1800; bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Binding
Contemporary quarter mid brown sheep leather; boards covered in blue sugar paper; letterpress booklabel on front board; gold tooled single fillet on spine.
Copy-specific note
Two loose letterpress advertisements for additional plates inserted. Both printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London. The first, for plates XV to XVII, is dated May 30 1805; the second, for plates XVIII to XX, is dated June 26 1806.
Copy-specific note
Previous held loose prints from a series: Printed description of some ancient historic paintings preserved at Cowdray in Sussex, dated 1788. Now catalogued separately.
Subject
St. Stephen's Chapel (Westminster, London, England)
Added entry--name
Basire, James, 1769 - 1822 engraver.
Added entry--name
Carter, John, 1748 - 1817 artist.
Added entry--name
Bensley, Thomas, approximately 1760 - 1835 printer.
Added entry--name
Storer, Anthony Morris, 1746 - 1799 former owner.
Added entry--name
Society of Antiquaries of London publisher.
Added entry--place
England London
Identifier
B46872