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• Author/Creator:Ireland, Samuel, -1800, engraver.
  
• Title:Picturesque views on the upper, or Warwickshire Avon : from its sources at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland.
  
• Published/Created:London : Published by R. Faulder and T. Egerton, 1795.
  
• Physical Description:xviii, 284, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: DA670.W3 I74 1795+ Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Edea Av75 795
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Local Notes:MUDD Edea Av75 795: Bookplate of Benjafield, Bury St. Edmunds.
  BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in half calf with marbled boards. Large paper copy: 36 cm. Contains half-title page and errata. Bookplate: J. Lane.
  
• Notes:Engraved half-title: Warwickshire Avon.
  Aquatint half-title page engraved by Cornelis Apostool; after Edward Francis Burney. Colored etchings by Samuel Ireland. Rest of plates are colored aquatints with imprint: Published for Saml. Ireland Feby. 1. 1795.
  Also includes small wood-engraved illustrations within the text, unsigned.
  Errata: p. [285]
  
• Variant and related titles:Warwickshire Avon
  
• Format:Book
• Contents:Plates: Avon Head, Naseby, Northamptonshire -- Welford, Northamptonshire -- Dow Bridge, anciently Tripontium -- Newbold on Avon --Coombe Abbey -- Stonely Abbey, Warwickshire --Ruins at Kenelworth [sic] -- Guy's Cliff, Warwickshire --Warwick Town, Castle &c. -- Entrance to Warwick Castle -- Warwick Castle -- Charlecot House -- St. Thos. Luck, Knt./ Taken from his Monument in Stratford Church -- Stratford Bridge, &c. -- Kitchen of the House in which Shakspere was born -- Shakspere's House, New Place, Chapel, & Grammar School -- Clopton House -- House at Shotery, in which Ann Hathaway the wife of Shakspere, resided -- Stratford Church, &c. -- Shakspeare's Monument -- Portrait of John Coombe -- Stratford Jubilee -- Bitford Grance -- Bitford, Warwickshire --Evesham Bridge, &c. -- Evesham Abbey -- Evesham Abbey Gate --Pershore, Worcestershire -- Eckington Bridge, Worcestershire -- Strensham, Worcestershire -- Myth Bridge, Tewkesbury.
  
• References:Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 427
  English short title catalogue, T79992
  
• Subjects:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Homes and haunts--Early works to 1800.
  Architecture, Domestic--England--Northamptonshire--Early works to 1800.
  Architecture, Domestic--England--Warwickshire--Early works to 1800.
  Architecture, Domestic--England--Worcestershire--Early works to 1800.
  Rivers--England--Early works to 1800--Early works to 1800.
  Avon, River (Leicestershire-Gloucestershire, England)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
  England--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
  England--Antiquities--Early works to 1800.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron--1795.
  Faulder, R.--Publisher.
  Egerton, T.--Publisher.
  Lane, J.--Bookplate.
  Benjafield--Bookplate.
  
• Genre/Form:Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
  Aquatints--Hand-colored--1795.
  Etchings--Hand-colored--1795.
  Wood engravings--1795.
  
• Also listed under:Apostool, Cornelis, 1762-1844, engraver.
  Burney, Edward Francis, 1760-1848, ill.