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• Author/Creator:Man, John, of Reading, Eng.
  
• Title:The history and antiquities, ancient and modern, of the borough of Reading : in the county of Berks / by John Man.
  
• Published/Created:Reading : Printed by Snare and Man; sold by Nichols, Son, and Bentley, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street; J. Richardson, Royal Exchange, London; and R. Snare, Minster Street, Reading, 1816.
  
• Physical Description:[2], iii, [1], 430, [2], xxxvi p., 21 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map, port, facsim. ; 36 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.R28 M36 1816+ Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in half blue calf. Autograph: Geo. Tyrrell 1853.
  
• Notes:Title page printed in red and black.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Errata slip inserted.
  
• Format:Book
• Contents:Contents of plates: Plan of the borough of Reading 1813 -- Siege of Reading by the Earl of Essex -- Archbishop Laud, from the original in the Council Chamber. His House in Broad Street -- Reading Tokens issued by I.B. Monck, Esq. -- Speed's map of Reading 1610 -- East view of High Bridge -- John Kendrick -- Copy of Mr. Rennie's plan of the proposed canal -- To the Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Reading this plate of the corporation arms is humbly inscribed by the author -- South view of the supposed ruins of the castle -- Fragments of various ornamental parts of the Abbey -- Sir Thomas Rich Bart. His monument in Sonning Church, Berks. -- South view of the Abbey Gate -- Ground plan of the Abbey and Church -- Plan of the Forbury, at the dissolution -- Interior view of the Friary, now the Town Bridewell -- Johannes Blagravvs -- Fac-simile of the Charter of Reading 1345 -- West view of Caversham Bridge -- Sir Thomas White, Aldermanus Civitatus London -- Richard Aldworth.
  
• References:Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 293
  
• Subjects:Church architecture--England--Reading.
  Reading (England)--History.
  Reading (England)--Antiquities.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1816.
  Engraving--Specimens--1816.
  Reading--Imprints--Specimens--1816.
  Tyrrell, Geo.--Autograph, 1853.
  Snare and Man--Printer.
  
• Genre/Form:Aquatints--1816.