The Architectural Antiquities Of Great Britain, Represented And Illustrated In A Series Of Views, Elevations, Plans, Sections, And Details, Of Various Ancient English Edifices: With Historical And Descriptive Accounts Of Each. By John Britton, F.S.A. Vol. I. (-V.)

RA Collection: Book

Record number

04/3369

Author

John Britton, 1771-1857.

Imprint

London :: Printed For Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme, Paternoster-Row; - J. Taylor, Architectural Library, 59, High Holborn; And The Author., 1807. (-1826.)

Physical Description

5 vols.; 29 cm. (Quarto.)

General Note

Vol. I: [4], ii, [18], 8, 7*-8*, [1], 10-16, 23, [1], 34, 14, 6, 2, 6 p., add. engr. t.-pl., [60] pl. - Vol. II: iv, ii, 114, 6 p., add. engr. t.pl., [69] pl. - Vol. III: 6, 12, [1], 14*-16*, [1], 14-24, [1], 26*, [1], 26-28, [1], 28-92, 6 p., add. engr. t.pl., [68] pl.; illus. - Vol. IV: iv, [1], iv-viii, 1-18, [1], 42-196, 4, [1], 198-199, [1], 9-10 p., add. engr. t.pl., [76] pl.; illus. Page [200] is numbered 8. - Vol. V: [2], xvi, 260, lxiv p., [2] add. etched t.pl., [81] pl.

Vol. I: [Add. general t.pl., add. t.pl., t.p., dedic.] - A Prefatory Advertisement. (Pro-Tempore.) - Screen In Edward The Confessor's Chapel [descr. of add. t.pl.] - [Text] - Index ... - A List Of Prints To The First Volume ...; [colophon]. - Vol. II: [Add. t.pl., t.p., dedic.] - Introduction - [Text] - Index ...; Errata - A List Of Prints ...; [colophon]. - Vol. III: [Add. t.pl., t.p., dedic.] - Introduction - [Text] - Index ... - A List Of Prints ...; [colophon]. - Vol. IV: [Add. t.pl., t.p., dedic.] - Preface - [Text] - A Chronological And Historical Index ... By John Adey Repton - Index - A List Of Prints ...; [colophon]. - Vol. V: [Two add. etch. t.pl., t.p.] - Preface - Analytical Table of Contents - Engraved Title Pages [description] - List of Engravings ...; Errata; The Binder ... - [Text] - Appendix ... I (-VII) - An Index Of Reference To Architectural Members And Subjects ... - Alphabetical Index Of Names Of Persons, Places, Terms, Etc. ...; [colophon].

References

RIBA, Early printed, I (1994), 391.

R. Sweet, Antiquaries: the discovery of the past in eighteenth-century Britain (2004); J. Mordaunt Crook, 'John Britton and the genesis of the Gothic Revival', in Concerning architecture, ed. J. Summerson (1968).

Provenance

27 February 1808: 'Resolved, Britton's Architectural Antiquities, ... be ordered for the Library.' (RA Council Minutes IV, 47).

Despite this decision there is no evidence that any more than the first volume of this work was ever acquired for the RA Library.

Copy Note

Volume I only.

Subject

Architecture - Great Britain - History
Plans - Elevations - Sections - Views - 19th century
Pictorial works - 19th century