Londina Illustrata. Graphic And Historic Memorials Of Monasteries, Churches, Chapels, Schools, Charitable Foundations, Palaces, Halls, Courts, Processions, Places Of Early Amusement And Modern & Present Theatres, In the Cities and Suburbs of London & Westminster.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/4055

Imprint

London,: Published 1st. Jany 1819,, by Robt. Wilkinson, No 125, Fenchurch Street

Physical Description

2 vols.; 429 mm.

General Note

Vol. I: [164]p., t.pl., pl.[1-85]. - Vol. II: [100] p., pl. [86-158]. - Note that this description is of the Royal Academy's copy. As Adams states, the publisher's was a 'policy of continuous revision'. The list of Contents included in the Academy's copy calls for 202 pages and apparently [124] plates; in its final version the work contained more than 206 plates.

Contents

Vol. I: [T.pl.] - Londina Illustrata. Contents. - [Text and pl.]. - Vol. II: [Text and pl.].

Responsibility Note

Most plates carry names of draughtsman and engraver (in a few cases those of earlier artists such as Hollar). Draughtsmen include Schnebbelie, F. Nash, W. Capon, Geo. Jones, W. Hollar, H. Gardner, G. Shepherd, William Goodman, C.J.M. Whichelo, J. Carter, Fellows, C. Westmacott, E. Burney, B. Howlett, T.H. Shepherd, Banks, Ravenhill, W. Oram. Engravers include J. Stow, T. Dale, B. Howlett, Whichelo, W. Wise, S. Rawle, T. Bourne, H. Cook, M. Springsguth, W. Hollar, Joseph Skelton, Silvestre, Richard Sawyer, S. Springsguth junr., Taylor.

Each plate, with the exception of pl. [107] (where it is probably present but overpasted), carries the publisher's imprint - of William Herbert, Lambeth, and Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill (from 1808 Jun1 to 1809 Oct 11), or Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill (from 1810 Oct 11 to 1815 Dec 1), or Robert Wilkinson, 125 Fenchurch Street (from 1816 Oct 11 to 1823 Jan 1).

References

Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library ... Early printed books, 2 (1995), no. 1916, p.1007-9; B. Adams, London illustrated, 1604-1851: a survey and index of topographical books and their plates (1983), no.131, p.307-23.

Summary Note

The publication-date of 1819 is carried by the title-plate. The plates carry earlier and later dates. The first group of plates had been issued in June 1808 by William Herbert (without collective title), the second in November and December 1808 by William Herbert and Robert Wilkinson, in a wrapper carrying the title 'Scarce Topographical Prints. No. II. ... of Londina Illustrata ...'. The plates continued to be issued serially until 1819, when they became available with the collective title-plate and contents-list described here. Further plates were issued between 1820 and 1823, and, according to Adams, issued as a continuation volume in that year, but without title-page or title-plate. A posthumous edition was published in 1834 in two volumes with two check-lists, and, according to Adams, this brought the total number of plates up to 206. In the Royal Academy's copy the plates carry dates ranging from 1808 to 1823, as follows:

1808 Jun 1[pl. 54, 57, 58, 76], Nov 30 [65], Dec 1 [66, 67];

1809 Jan 1[26, 80, 82, 84], Mar 30 [1], Apr 3 [81], May 1[59], May 19 [83], Jun 13 [41, 60, 92, 96], Oct 11 [64, 86, 91, 97];

1810 Oct 11[87-90];

1811 Feb 11 [8, 72, 74], Jun 4 [61, 85, 94], Jul 27 [99], Aug 7 [2, 100], Oct 7 [93, 95, 101];

1812 May 8 [68];

1813 Jan 1 [37, 44, 53, 62, 70, 75], Feb 10 [55], Oct 11 [105], Dec 1[46, 102];

1814 Jan 1[45, 98], May 1 [4, 117], Jun 4 [5, 6, 63, 109], Aug 8 [71];

1815 Jan 2 [27, 28], Mar 11 [29, 47, 79], Apr 11[30, 56, 73], Dec 1 [7, 9, 33, 38, 104, 106, 110, 113];

1816 Oct 11[10-17, 35, 36, 108, 111, 116];

1817 Oct 11 [20-22, 24, 25, 34, 42, 43, 112, 118];

1819 Jan 1 [3, 18, 19, 23, 31, 32, 39, 48, 49, 51, 52, 69, 77, 78, 103, 114, 115];

1820 Sep 27 [119-123, 125, 131-133, 135, 136, 140, 147, 150-152];

1821 Mar 25 [124, 127, 129, 145, 155];

1822 Jan 1 [126, 146], Feb 1[134], Mar 1[128, 130, 137], Mar 14 [138], Mar 25, May 1 [157], Jun 1 [139, 153, 158], Jun 4 [156], Aug 7 [142], Dec 1 [141, 144, 149];

1823 Jan 1 [143, 148, 154].

Two plates [40, 107] do not carry dates; pl. [107] carries a pasted-in printed notice possibly covering a publication-date.

Most of the plates show views, but some plans are included.

Binding Note

19th-century half blue morocco, green cloth-covered boards; spines lettered 'Londina Illustrata - I (II)' and 'R.A.'

Subject

Architecture - Architecture details - Public buildings - Theatres - Churches - Great Britain - London - History
Surveys - Views - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors

Robert Wilkinson, publisher
Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie, draughtsman
Frederick Nash, draughtsman
William Capon, draughtsman
George Jones RA, draughtsman
Wenceslaus Hollar, draughtsman, engraver
H. Gardner, draughtsman
George Sidney Shepherd, draughtsman
Charles John Mayle Whichelo, draughtsman, engraver
John Carter, draughtsman
H. Fellows, draughtsman
Charles Molloy Westmacott, draughtsman
Edward Francis Burney, draughtsman
Bartholomew Howlett, draughtsman, engraver
Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, draughtsman
Banks, draughtsman
Ravenhill, draughtsman
James Stow, engraver
Thomas A. Dale, engraver
William Wise, engraver
Samuel Rawle, engraver
T. Bourne, engraver
Henry Cook, engraver
S. Springsguth, engraver
Joseph Skelton, engraver
Richard Sawyer, engraver
William Herbert, publisher