Description | A variety of English 18th and early 19th c. prints, mostly of British architecture and mostly copperplate engravings. . In plans drawer.
1-11 (1) Architectural views of historic London buildings, published (and mostly drawn and engraved) by John Thomas Smith, London, at various dates from 1805 to 1809. (One duplicate) Some are copied from much earlier pictures.
12-17 (2) Miscellaneous prints of rural buildings:
St. James Church, Bury, engr. Richard Godfrey 1779
St Mary’s Church, Wareham, engr. Bayly
Holm Abbey, Cultram, engr. John Coney, 1823
Arch of Dolabella, etching by J Merigot, 1797
Haverford West Castle, Pembrokeshire, publ. Alex Hogg
Donnington Castle, Berkshire, engr. Wm. Byrne, 1778
18-20 (3) Memorial Tombs:
(a) “Johannis Stratford” (possibly a bishop). Large print “p. 355”, c. 1720-1770, but no other identification.
(b) Two prints published in 1805 by Verner, Hood, Poultry, Storer & Greig, in Pentonville of tombs in Westminster Abbey (Henry V & St. Erasmus).
21-22 (4) Two pages of illustrations published by J Wilkes:
(a) “Theory of Navigable Canals” 1800
(b) “Horticulture”: three types of glass house, 1810.
23 (5) From “Architecture-Joinery” Pl. XXIII, publ. Longman, 1810. Examples of doors.
24 (6) From Encyclopaedia Britanica, roof over ship-dock at Plymouth. |