Shelfmark
Gk.3.10 - Gk.3.14
Author
Title
The architectural antiquities of Great Britain, represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices: with historical and descriptive accounts of each. By John Britton, F.S.A..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row;--J. Taylor, Architectural Library, 59, High Holborn; and the author., 1807. [-1826.].
Physical description
5 v. : ill., plans ; 28 cm.
Note
Added engraved title-pages.
Note
Publication dates: v.1: 1807 -- v.2: 1809 -- v.3: 1812 -- v.4: 1814 -- v.5: 1826.
Note
Back of title page: "Wright, Printer St John's Square, Clerkenwell.".
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of William Morris on front pastedown.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf.
Binding
19th-century quarter-bound red morocco, in different styles, over mill/pasteboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to separate the leather in the two styles. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, tools, and titling ("Architectural antiquities"; "Britsson vol. [I-V.]"; "1807"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Architecture Great Britain.
Added entry--name
Taylor, J. (Josiah), publisher.
Added entry--name
Britton, John, 1771 - 1857 publisher.
Added entry--name
Wright, John printer.
Added entry--name
Morris, William, 1834 - 1896 former owner.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51327