Shelfmark
Gi.6.23
Author
Title
Antiquarian and topographical cabinet, containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain. Accompanied with letter-press descriptions..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Published for the proprietors by W. Clarke, New Bond Street; J. Carpenter, Old Bond Street; and H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row., 1807-1811.
Physical description
10 v., plates : ill. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Note
"Advertisement" (v. 1) signed: J. Storer and I. Greig.
Note
Volume 1 is known to exist in at least three editions and volume 2 in at least two editions: in this edition, all volumes have printer's statement "S. Gosnell, Printer, Little Queen Street" on title page verso.
Note
Imprint varies: v. 4: London: Published for the proprietors by W. Clarke ... J. Carpenter ... and Sherwood, Neely, and Jones ...; v. 5-10: London: Published for the proprietors by W. Clarke ... J. Carpenter ... C. Chapple ... J.M. Richardson ... and Sherwood, Neely, and Jones ...
Note
Each volume has added engraved title page.
Note
All volumes are unpaged.
Provenance
Bookplate of Arabella Birt on front pastedown.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf.
Binding
19th-century speckled and mottled calfskin over mill/pasteboards. Covers decorated with transversal fillets on board edges and turn-ins (once gilted but completely faded?). Spine flat,decorated with gilt fillets, roll, tools, and titling ("Antiquarian cabinet"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of undecorated paper.
Subject
Architecture Great Britain.
Subject
Great Britain Antiquities
Subject
Great Britain Pictorial works.
Added entry--name
Greig, John, active 1803 - 1853 artist.
Added entry--name
Storer, James (), 1771 - 1853 artist.
Added entry--name
Symonds, H. D. (Henry Delahoy) (Henry Delahoy), publisher.
Added entry--name
Gosnell, Samuel printer.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Carpenter & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51237