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Microcosm of London.
- Title
- Microcosm of London.
- Publication
- London : T. Bensley, printer, [1808?-16?]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | By appointment only | Spencer Coll. Eng. 1808+ | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- 3 v. 104 col. plates.; 37cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Hardie: English coloured books, p. 100-103, 310, 315. Tooley: English books with coloured plates, p. 18-23. Abbey: Scenery of Greawt Britain, 212.
- Engraved dedicatory leaf in each volume signed by R. Ackermann, publisher of the work.
- Originally issued in 26 monthly parts, Jan. 1808-Feb. 1810. 1810. Vol. 1 of this copy is presumably not of an early issue as the errata have been corrected and pl. 32 has watermark: 1816. Vol. 2-3 contain the errors and the plates are watermarked 1808 and 1809.
- Text of v. 1-2 by W. H. Pyne, of v. 3 by W. Combe.
- Illustrations: 104 colored aquatints by J. Bluck, J. C. Stadler and others, after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson. The latter drew the figures, the former the architectural backgrounds. Except for "Cock pit" and "British Institution" none of the test plates described by Abbey are in the first state.
- With bookplates of the Bibliothèque de Rosny [library of Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise de Naples, duchesse de Berry] and of Victorien Sardou.
- Binding, by Simier, of three-fourths red morocco, gilt, with supra-libros of the duchesse de Berry.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Eng. 1808+
- OCLC
- 131731777
- Title
- Microcosm of London.
- Imprint
- London : T. Bensley, printer, [1808?-16?]
- Added Author
- Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834.Combe, William, 1741-1823.Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843.Bluck, J., engr.Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832, ill.Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, ill.Stadler, Joseph Constantine, engr.
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Eng. 1808+