Author: HEARNE, T.; BYRNE, W.
Title: Antiquities of Great Britain, a Series of Illustrations.
Description: London: T. Hearne and T. Byrne, (1786-1807) Oblong 4to., backed in green cloth, with brown cloth strip to inner margins of boards, onto which is laid down a green textured paper with botanical design, with publisher’s gilt-lettered black paper label to front board, 60 engraved plates including pictorial title, being a compilation of plates from the 1786 and 1807 editions: the 1786 edition comprised 52 plates, of which 30 are included here, with a further 29 from the 1807 edition, plus pictorial title, plates drawn by T. Hearne and engraved by W. Byrne (et al); light foxing (pale, and largely but not exclusively to margins of plates), otherwise internally fairly crisp and very good, with rubbing to paper covering of boards and loss along lower margin of label, wear to extremities, circular mark to front board, a very good copy. Tintern Abbey, Rochester Cathedral, Malmesbury Abbey (x2), Melrose Abbey (x2), Thaxted Church, Monastery at Kelso, Abbey Church at St. Albans (x2), Lanercost Priory, Peel Castle, Furness Abbey (x2), Donnington Castle, Chepstow, Beaulieu Abbey, Newark Castle, Egremont Castle, Stone Henge, Castle-Acre Priory, Lanthony Abbey (x2), Wells Cathedral, Market Cross at Glastonbury, St. Botolph’s Priory, Eggleston Abbey, Rothesay Castle, Ludlow Castle (x2), Ripon Minster, Hereford Cathedral, Stirling Castle (x2), Ely Cathedral, Roch Abbey, Abbey Gate of St. Edmundsbury, Craigmillar Castle, St. Peter’s Oxford, College of Lincluden, Wingfield Castle, Carlisle Cathedral, Ragland Castle, Wigmore Castle, Caister Castle, Roslin Castle, Priory Gate, Kenilworth, Leiston Abbey, Castle-Rising Castle, St. James’ Dunwich, Salisbury Cathedral, Episcopal Palace at Wells, Byland Abbey, Gloucester Cathedral (x2), Hospital of St. Cross, Allington Castle, Cathedral and Episcopal Palace of Glasgow, Bar Gate, Southampton.

Keywords: British Topography


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