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044 # # $a uk
245 0 0 $a Ecclesiarum Angliæ et Valliæ Prospectus Or Views of all the Cathedrals in England And Wales. $b Of the Collegiate Churches of Westminster and Southwell, & of the Royal Chapel of St. George at Windsor. Accurately Engrav'd on 40 Copper Plates by the best Artists and printed on Imperial paper. To which is prefix'd an Historical Account of each of them. Veues de toutes les Cathedrales d'Angleterre & du Pais de Galles Des Eglises Collegiales de Westminster & de Southwell et de la Chapelle Royale De St. George A Windsor. Exactement gravées Sur quarante Planches de Cuivre par les meilleurs Graveurs. Avec une Relation Historique de chacune de ces Eglises.
246 3 # $a Veues de toutes les Cathedrales d'Angleterre & du Pais de Galles
260 # # $a London $b Printed for Joseph Smith at his shop at the West End of Exeter Exchange in the Strand. $c 1719. $b Se vend dans la Boutique de Ioseph Smith dans Exeter Exchange du cote de l Ouest. $c 1719.
300 # # $a 24 p., t.-pl., 40? pl. (all dble., 1 fold.); $c 528 mm. (Folio).
505 0 # $a [T.-pl.] - An Historical Account Of all the Cathedrals In England and Wales ... / Description Historique De toutes les Eglises Cathedrales De l'Angleterre et du païs de Galles ... : An Account of the Work; Canterbury, London, Winchester, Ely, Lincoln, Lichfield and Coventry, Hereford, Worcester, Bath and Wells, Salisbury, Exeter, Chichester, Norwich, Gloucester, Oxford, Peterborough, Bristol, Rochester, St. David's, Landaff, St. Asaph, Bangor, York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man; Windsor, Westminster, Southwell, St. Clement Danes, St. Mary Le Strand - Books Printed for, and Sold by J. Smith, in Exeter-Exchange, London - [Plates].
508 # # $a Two plates are signed as engraved by I. Collins - that captioned 'The North Prospect of the Cathedral Church of Landaff' ('taken Ao. 1713') and that captioned 'The North Prospect of Westminster Abbey'. The title-page vignette (a view of St Paul's cathedral, London) is signed as engraved by H. Hulsbergh.
510 0 # $a On the Gothic Revival see G. Worsley, 'The origins of the Gothic Revival: a reappraisal', in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser. 3 (1993), p. 105-50; M. McCarthy, Origins of the Gothic Revival (1987); K. Clark, The Gothic Revival (1962).
561 # # $a Acquired between 1769 and 1802. Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
562 # # $a Imperfect; many plates are missing, some others have been added. The plates which are present are those of Ely, Hereford, Worcester, Bath, Exeter, Chichester, Oxford (? there are two views of Christ Church quadrangle only), Bristol, Rochester, St David's, Landaff, St Asaph, Bangor, Durham, Carlisle, Westminster (? north), Southwell. There are no plates showing Canterbury, London, Winchester, Lincoln, Lichfield and Coventry, Wells, Salisbury, Norwich, Gloucester, Oxford (?), Peterborough, York, Chester, Windsor, Westminster (?), St Clement Dane's, St Mary Strand. The six added plates show: the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford; the church of St Mary Redcliff, Bristol; St George's, Hanover Square, London (1761); Trinity College, Cambridge (1740) [2 plates]; the Radcliffe Library, Oxford. There is affixed to the front pastedown a list, hand-written in ink, indicating which plates are present and which missing. Copies of a bookseller's ticket are pasted to the plates showing Bristol cathedral and St David's cathedral, reading '... Sold by Henry Overton at the white Horse without Newgate London'.
563 # # $a 18th-century calf, upper and lower panels decorated in blind with rectangular panels; rebacked in 20th century, green morocco spine-label lettered 'Views of The Cathedrals In England And Wales'.
653 # # $a Architecture, British - Churches - Cathedrals - Great Britain - History - Romanesque - Gothic
655 # 4 $a Views - Great Britain - 18th century
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Smith, Joseph $e publisher $e bookseller
700 1 # $a Hulsbergh, Henry $e engraver
852 8 # $d 1802: U-0-03; 1821: 13-0-10.