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Antiquities of the City of Westminster; the old palace, St. Stephen's Chapel, (now the House of Commons) &c. &c. Containing two hundred and forty-six engravings of topographical objects, (of which one hundred and twenty-two no longer exist,)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833
Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842
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Title
Antiquities of the City of Westminster; the old palace, St. Stephen's Chapel, (now the House of Commons) &c. &c. Containing two hundred and forty-six engravings of topographical objects, (of which one hundred and twenty-two no longer exist,)
Publisher
London, Printed for J. T. Smith and sold by R. Ryan, and J. Manson; the letter-press by T. Bensley
Description
Plates drawn and/or engraved by Smith; dated Jan. 1, 1804-Nov. 19, 1807
The plates are copper-plates, as well as aquatint and mezzotint plates
Plate facing p. 48 (Painted Chamber), unsigned and without title or imprint, is a lithograph; generally considered the first lithograph to be used as an illustration in an English book
Lowndes. Bibliographer's manual; Dict. nat. biog.; D. Bland. A hist. of book illustration, p. 250. Cf. also J. R. Abbey. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, no. 210 (a later issue)
"List of subscribers": p. [273]-276
Includes bibliography
Library's copy 1 is first edition, 1st issue, with dedication to George III signed "The Author", with lithograph, but without half-t.p., advertisement (1 leaf) after dedication, Smith's "Vindication" (16 p.) or "List of plates" (1 leaf) after preface
Library's copy 2 is first edition, 2nd issue, with the second state of the t.p., the half-t.p., different state of the dedication to George III signed John Thomas Smith, including advertisement (1 leaf) after dedication, but without Smith's "Vindication" (16 p.) or "List of plates" (1 leaf) after preface

Subjects: Westminster Palace (London, England)
Language English
Publication date 1807
publication_date QS:P577,+1807-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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IA Collections: getty; americana
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antiquitiesofcit00smit
Notes No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
Authority file  OCLC: 1039972177
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Internet Archive identifier: antiquitiesofcit00smit
https://archive.org/download/antiquitiesofcit00smit/antiquitiesofcit00smit.pdf

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