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• Author/Creator:Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877.
  
• Title:Suggestions for the architectural improvement of the western part of London / by Sydney Smirke, F.S.A., F.G.A.
  
• Published/Created:London : Priestley and Weale, 1834.
  
• Physical Description:[4], 117 p., [3] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., plan ; 27 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: NA9187.L7 S65 1834+ Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

  • Location:Library Shelving Facility (LSF) (In building use only)
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  • Call Number: Jax45 L7 834S
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original red boards, printed in black. Armorial bookplate of Sir Samuel Wilson. With ALS from Smirke to "Dear Madam," (i.e. Mary Anne Disraeli), 1849 May 26, removed to Artists' letters file. Smirke notes: "Do you think it likely that Mr. Disraeli would do me the favor to admit this small volume into his library. I wrote it when I had more leisure, & perhaps less prudence, than at present, but it is somewhat gratifying to my vanity to find that (however little acknowledged) a number of the suggestions have since been adopted ..."
  
• Notes:Spine title: Suggestions for the architectural improvement of London
  Aquatints by William Daniell and Joseph Epenetus Coombs; after Sydney Smirke.
  Printed by T. Brettell, London.
  
• Summary:Design plans for new Parliamentary buildings to be located in Green Park and plans for the old Parlimentary buildings to be turned into judicial courts. Also plans for a Gothic style mausoleum to be built on the Serpentine.
  
• Variant and related titles:Suggestions for the architectural improvement of London
  
• Format:Book
• References:British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840, 3070
  Avery Index (2nd ed.), v.17, 246
  
• Subjects:City planning--England--London--Designs and plans.
  Public buildings--England--London--Designs and plans.
  Architecture--Conservation and restoration--Great Britain.
  Architecture--Great Britain.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1834.
  Brettell, T.--Printer.
  Wilson, Samuel, Sir--Bookplate.
  Disraeli, Mary Anne, Viscountess Beaconsfield, 1792-1872--Pres. insc. from Sydney Smirke.
  Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877--Pres. insc. to Mary Anne Disraeli.
  Priestley and Weale--Publisher.
  
• Genre/Form:Aquatints--1834.
  Lithographs--Hand-colored--1834.
  Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
  
• Also listed under:Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881, associated name.
  Coombs, J. E. (Joseph Epenetus), active 19th century, engraver.
  Daniell, William, 1792-1820, engraver.