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Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bretagne (v.3-4)

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Type of record: Book

Title: Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bretagne (v.3-4)

Other titles: Ecclesiarum Angliae et Valliae prospectus; Views of all the cathedrals in England and Wales of the collegiate churches of Westminster and Southwell, and of the royal chapel of St. George at Windsor

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Misc. Quartos/NOU

Additional creator(s): Kip, Johannes (1653-1722) (Other); Knyff, Leonard (1650-1721) (Other)

Related people: Kip, Johannes; Knyff, Leonard

Publisher: Chez Joseph Smith

Publication city: A Londres

Date(s): 1724-28

Language: French

Size and medium: 5 v. in 3

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/324913

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017212749705181

Description

Second edition.


Title in red and black; title vignette.


Some engravings by Johannes Kip after Leonard Knyff.


Tome 1 was originally published in 1708 with the title "Britannia illustrata, or Views of several of the Queen's palaces... [etc.]" and an added t.p. in French, as above.


Tome 3 has added t.p., engraved (with vignette) dated 1719 (London : Printed for Ioseph Smith at the shop at the West End of Exeter Exchange in the Strand), with title: Ecclesiarum Angliae et Valliae prospectus, or, Views of all the cathedrals in England and Wales of the collegiate churches of Westminster and Southwell, & of the royal chapel of St. George at Windsor... .


[Tome 5] has title: Supplement du Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bretagne... A Londres, Chez J. Groenewegen & N. Prevost ... 1728.


t. 1-2. Description exacte des palais du roy et des maisons les plus considerables des seigneurs & des gentilshommes.--t. 3. Description exacte des archevechez & evechez d'Angleterre. De leur fondations, cathedrales, le nombre d'eveques qui y ont siegez, avec les revenus & armoiries des dioceses, & autres eglises.--t. 4. Description exacte des villes, et palais du roy, et les ports de mer.--[t. 5] Description exacte des maisons les plus considerables des seigneurs & des gentilshommes de la Grande Bretagne. Avec les plans de plusieurs villes, abbayes, & eglises cathedrales d'Ecosse.

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Vol. 3: t.p. missing added t.p. only.

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