Antiquities of Westminster Abbey : ancient oil paintings, and sepulchral brasses, in the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster / and engraved from drawings by G.P. Harding, with an historical, biographical, and heraldic description by Thomas Moule

George Perfect Harding

RA Collection: Book

Record number

17/1316

Author

George Perfect Harding

Imprint

London: Printed for G. P. Harding, Hercules Buildings, Lambeth by W. Davy, Gilbert Street, Grosvenor Square, 1825

Physical Description

[6], ii, 44, [4] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill., geneal. tables ; 39 cm.

General Note

Colophon: "W. Davy, printer, 8, Gilbert Street, Oxford Street."

Titlepage in red and black

Responsibility Note

All plates state that they are published by G.P. Harding on 1st May 1825 except for plate V which is dated 1st January 1825. Plates I, II and II are engraved by J. Stow after designs by G.P. Harding.

Provenance

The front pastedown carries a 20th century Royal Academy bookplate
The front pastedown is inscribed in pencil, 'S:A:H', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81.

Contributors

Thomas Moule, contributor
George Perfect Harding, publisher
William Davy, printer
James Stow, engraver