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• Author/Creator:Britton, John, 1771-1857.
  
• Title:Picturesque antiquities of the English cities : illustrated by a series of engravings of antient buildings, street scenery, etc., with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / by John Britton, F.S.A. M.R.S.L. and member of several other societes, English and foreign.
  
• Published/Created:London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green : The author ; Pentonville : J. Le Keux, 1830.
  
• Physical Description:xii, 88 p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: 1972 +146
    
  • Status:No information available 

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: DA620 .B75 1830+ Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Notes:Engravings by James Baylis Allen, Branston and Wright, John Le Keux, Abraham John Mason, James C. Redaway, Edward John Roberts, Robert Sands, William Taylor, William Tombleson, John Charles Varrall, John Wright, Samuel Williams, and Thomas Woolnoth; after W.H. Bartlett, James Carter, George Fennel Robson, and Edward James Willson.
  Printed by C. Whittingham, Chiswick.
  Includes added engraved title page
  With a wood-engraved vignette on letter-press title page.
  
• Format:Book
• Contents:York -- Lincoln -- Peterborough -- Canterbury -- Rochester -- Winchester -- Hereford -- Worcester -- Gloucester -- Coventry -- Durham -- Chichester -- Salisbury -- Wells -- Bristol -- Bath -- Norwich -- London.
  
• Subjects:Historic buildings--Great Britain.
  Architecture--England.
  Cities and towns--England.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1830.
  Pentonville--Imprints--Specimens--1830.
  Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green--Publisher.
  Britton, John--Publisher.
  Le Keux, J.--Publisher.
  Chiswick C.--Printer.
  
• Genre/Form:Wood engravings--1830.
  Steel engravings--1830.
  
• Also listed under:Allen, James Baylis, 1803-1876, engraver.
  Le Keux, John, 1783-1846, engraver.
  Mason, Abraham John, 1794-1858, engraver.
  Redaway, James C., active 1818-1857
  Roberts, Edward John, 1797-1865, engraver.
  Sands, Robert, 1782-1855, engraver.
  Taylor, William, active 1830-1858, engraver.
  Tombleson, William, 1795-, engraver.
  Varrall, John Charles, active 1818-1848, engraver.
  Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853, engraver.
  Woolnoth, Thomas, 1785-, engraver.
  Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809-1854, ill.
  Carter, James, 1798-1855, ill.
  Robson, George Fennel, 1788-1833, ill.
  Willson, Edward James, 1787-1854, ill.
  Branston and Wright, engraver.