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The history of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, its antiquities and monuments.
London, R. Ackermann, 1812. First edition, first issue (i.e. first plate in second volume signed F. Mackenzie), 2 vols., 4to, pp. [iii]-xvi, [2], 330, [6]; [2], 275, [5]; complete with engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved plan, hand-colored lithograph half-title in vol. II, 78 hand-colored aquatints and 2 uncolored lithographs; bound without the half-titles in contemporary full calf with double gilt rules on covers enclosing a large central gilt lozenge, neatly and sympathetically rebacked in tan calf to match, red and black morocco labels and gilt design in the panels matching that on covers; some rubbing at extremities, many of the plates offset, several pages with some spotting, but in all a very good, sound set. Tooley, 2. Abbey, Scenery, 213. Prideaux p. 331.
Offered for US$ 3250.00 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 29097