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• Author/Creator:Wheler, Robert Bell, 1785-1857.
  
• Title:History and antiquities of Stratford-upon-Avon : comprising a description of the collegiate church, the life of Shakespeare, and copies of several documents relating to him and his family, never before printed : with a biographical sketch of other eminent characters, natives of, or who have resided in Stratford : to which is added, a particular account of the jubilee, celebrated at Stratford, in honour of our immortal bard / by R.B. Wheler.
  
• Published/Created:Stratford-upon-Avon [England] : Printed and sold by J. Ward, [1806].
  
• Physical Description:ii, 229 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: DA690 S92 W5 1806
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:Illustrations by Francis Eginton; after R.B. Wheler.
  BAC: This copy is the Abbey copy.
  
• Notes:"Jubilee" of 1769.
  Date from spine.
  
• Format:Book
• References:Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 317
  
• Subjects:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
  Stratford-upon-Avon (England)--Antiquities.
  Stratford-upon-Avon (England)--History.
  Stratford-upon-Avon (England)--Pictorial works.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--[1806].
  Stratford-upon-Avon (England)--Imprints--[1806]
  Etching--Specimens--[1806]
  Ward, J.--Publisher.
  Marshall, George W.--Bookplate.
  Jennings, Thomas--Autograph.
  
• Genre/Form:Aquatints--[1806]
  
• Also listed under:Eginton, Francis, 1737-1805, engraver.
  Wheler, R.B. (Robert Bell), 1785-1857, ill.