Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository... containing a new and ocmplete collection of superb views of ... ruins and ancient buildings ... bridges, cathedrals, churches ([Limerick Exchange-end])
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Type of record: Book
Title: Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository... containing a new and ocmplete collection of superb views of ... ruins and ancient buildings ... bridges, cathedrals, churches ([Limerick Exchange-end])
Classmark: Large Architecture B-0.12 BOS
Creator(s): Boswell, Henry
Additional creator(s): Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784) (Other); Conder, Thomas (Other)
Publisher: Printed for Alex. Hogg, and sold by all book-printsellers, and news-carriers, in town and country
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1786]
Language: English
Size and medium: iv, 42 pages, 520 unnumbered pages; 245 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/184082
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008183269705181
Description
Except for the map of Yorkshire, which is T. Conder's map of 1784, the maps of the counties are by Thomas Kitchin and originally appeared in the London Magazine from 1747-1760. Their former imprints have been removed--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 53.
Indexed in: Chubb CCLVII.
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Lettered on spine: Vol. II
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