Yale Center for British Art
Title:
Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository of elegance, taste, and entertainment : containing a new and complete collection of superb views of all the most remarkable ruins and antient buildings, such as abbeys, castles, monasteries, priories ... : accompanied by elegant letter-press descriptions ... a complete set of county-maps ... together with an authentic account of Doomsday-Book ... / published under the inspection of Henry Boswell ... assisted by Robert Hamilton ... and other ingenious gentlemen ...
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Alex. Hogg, at the King's-Arms, No. 16, Paternoster-Row, and sold by all booksellers, printsellers, and news-carriers, in town and country, [1786]
Physical Description:
1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elizabeth Langhorne
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3672792
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Henry Boswell is probably a pseudonym. Cf. ESTC.
Subject Terms:
Historic buildings -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Historic buildings -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800. | Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800. | Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800. | Great Britain -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. | Coins, English -- Early works to 1800. | Seals (Numismatics) -- Early works to 1800. | England -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800. | Wales -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800. | Hogg, Alex. -- Publisher. | Lynch, George H. -- Bookplate. | Mexborough -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1786. | Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Contributors:
Boswell, Henry, attributed name. | Carey, W. P. (William Paulet), 1759–1839, engraver. | Conder, Thomas, 1746 or 1747–1831, engraver. | Coote, M., engraver. | Dadley, J., engraver. | Eastgate, John, engraver. | Ellis, William, 1747–1810, engraver. | Goldar, John, 1729–1795, engraver. | Grainger, W., engraver. | Hawkins, engraver. | Hogg, J., 18th century, engraver. | Lodge, John, -1796, engraver. | Lowry, Strickland, 1737–ca. 1785, engraver. | Neigel, engraver. | Noble, engraver. | Page, engraver. | Peltro, John, 1760–1808, engraver. | Pollard, Robert, 1755–1838, engraver. | Record, John, active 1768–1780, engraver. | Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813, engraver. | Roberts, Henry, approximately 1710–approximately 1790, engraver. | Simpson, J., engraver. | Sparrow, Samuel, engraver. | Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823, engraver. | Thornton, Thomas, 1751 or 1752–1823, engraver. | Walker, William, 1729–1793, engraver. | Walker, John, active 1784–1802, engraver. | Warren, engraver. | Wooding, J. G., engraver. | Burney, T. F., ill. | Hamilton, John, active 1766–1787, ill. | Kitchin, Thomas, 1719–1784, ill. | Wale, Samuel, -1786, ill. | Hogg, Alexander, active 1778–1819, publisher.