Author: MESSRS. DOBBS, BAILEY, & CO.
Title: A Description of the Colosseum as Re-opened in M.DCCC.XLV. Under the Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, and H.R.H. Prince Albert. With Numerous Illustrations and Eight Coloured Sections of the Panorama of London.
Description: Printed by Wertheimer and Co., 1845. 1st Edition. Oblong large 8vo. pp. 24> 6 full page wood engravings, 8 full page embossed and coloured plates each opposite sepia printed key plates. Loose in the original green blind stamped straight grained cloth, gilt, which is rather stained, faint tide marks visible mostly to the verso of the coloured plates. Uncommon and available in a number of different formats, presumably as expensive souvenirs of the panorama, a spectacular view of London taken from St. Paul's. It was also issued as an extended panorama with the key mounted above. "This Catalogue has been prepared for the Proprietor by Messrs. Kronheim and Skirving, Engravers and Designers, and the Illustrations and Letter-press are printed from Stereotype Plates cast by the Patent Process of Messrs. Kronheim & Co."

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