The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of ancient English edifices: with historical and descriptive accounts of each (v.4)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of ancient English edifices: with historical and descriptive accounts of each (v.4)
Classmark: Large Architecture B-0.1 BRI
Creator(s): Britton, John (1771-1857)
Publisher: M. A. Nattali
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1835
Language: English
Size and medium: 5 volumes, 353 plates (including plans)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/183888
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008130019705181
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Added title-pages, engraved in vols. 1, 2, 3, 5 are dated 1807, 1809, 1812, 1821, with a general title-page in vol. 1 dated 1806, and the plates have various dates.
Vol. 5 has special t.-p.: Chronological history and graphic illustrations of Christian architecture in England: embracing a critical inquiry into the rise, progress, and perfection of this species of architecture; also eighty-six plates... an alphabetical list of architects of the middle ages, and chronological lists of ancient churches, sepulchral monuments; pulpits, fonts, stone crosses, etc.
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