A poetic survey round Birmingham, with a brief description of the different curiosities and manufactories of the place, intended as a guide to strangers
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: A poetic survey round Birmingham, with a brief description of the different curiosities and manufactories of the place, intended as a guide to strangers
Classmark: Bedford Collection A001
Creator(s): Bisset, James of Birmingham (1762-1832)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Bernard Quaritch Ltd (Bookseller)
Publisher: Printed for the author; by Swinney and Hawkins, High-Street, Birmingham. Sold by T. Heptinstall, Holborn, London, Swinney and Hawkins, Birmingham, and all other booksellers
Publication city: Birmingham
Date(s): [1800]
Language: English
Size and medium: 62, [2] pages, 27 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/719073
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019652349505181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Plates engraved by T. Hancock, F. Eginton and others.
Half-title: 'Bisset's Poetic survey round Birmingham', with the information that copies with proof plates or coloured copies or copies printed in colour could be purchased.
The preface is dated at end: Museum, Birmingham, Jan. 1, 1800.
A magnificent directory has a separate title page and includes plates numbered A-X, 1-3.
With an index and a final leaf containing Bisset's account of the genesis of the directory.
Indexed in: ESTC,
Indexed in: Goldsmiths',
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A001: small loose excerpt from a newspaper mentioning Mr. James Bisset; loose typed excerpt from a sale catalogue.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A001: rebound in half calf, marbled paper over boards.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A001: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: TD/2. MS. bookseller's note in pencil on rear flyleaf: [...] BQ Ltd JB [i.e. Bernard Quaritch Ltd, London booksellers].
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