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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Beauties of England and Wales, or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each county. London : Printed by Thomas Maiden, for Vernor and Hood [and 6 others], 1801-1816 (OCoLC)558007519 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Britton; E W Brayley; Joseph Nightingale; J N Brewer; J Evans; John Hodgson; Francis Charles Laird; Frederic Shoberl; John Bigland; Thomas Rees; Thomas Hood; John Harris |
OCLC Number: | 4511149 |
Notes: | Added engraved t.p. in each vol. In vol. XII-XVIII, title and imprint vary slightly. "In the earlier volumes [I-VI] the letterpress seems to have been mainly Brayley's, while the general editing was ... Britton's."--Dict. nat. biog. (article Britton). Britton and Brayley "practically withdrew from the undertaking (1814) and other writers filled their places."--Dict. nat. biog. (article Brayley). Supplemented by: "Introduction to the original delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, intituled The Beauties of England and Wales. Comprising observations on the history and antiquities ... together with remarks on the progress of ... architecture in succeeding ages. By J. Norris Brewer." (xl, 676 p. : 2 fold. maps. ; 25 cm.) Published: London : Printed for J. Harris [etc.], 1818. Bibliography: p. [540]-584. Call number: DA625.B383. Includes indexes. For full contents note see NUC pre-1956 cited above. |
Description: | 18 volumes in 25 : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | v. 1. Bedfordshire ; Berkshire ; Buckinghamshire. 1801.--v.2. Cambridgeshire ; Cheshire ; Cornwall. 1801.--v.3. Cumberland ; Isle of Man ; Derbyshire. 1802.--v.4. Devonshire ; Dorsetshire. 1804.--v.5. Durham ; Essex ; Glocestershire. 1803.--v.6. Hampshire ; Isle of Wight ; Herefordshire. 1805.--v.7. Hertfordshire ; Huntingdonshire ; Kent / by E.W. Brayley. 1808.--v.8. Kent / by E.W. Brayley. 1808.--v.9. Lancashire ; Leicestershire ; Lincolnshire / by J. Britton. 1807.--v.10. Middlesex / by E.W. Brayley, J. Nightingale, J.N. Brewer. 1810-1816. (5 v. )--v.11. Monmouthshire ; Norfolk ; Northamptonshire / by J. Evans and J. Britton. 1810.--v.12. pt. 1. Northumberland / by J. Hodgson. Nottinghamshire / by F.C. Laird. 1813. --v.12. pt. 2. Oxfordshire / by J.N. Brewer. Rutlandshire / by F.C. Laird. 1813.--v.13. pt. 1. Shropshire ; Somersetshire. 1813.--v.13. pt. 2. Somersetshire ; Staffordshire /by J. Nightingale. 1813.--v.14. Suffolk ; Surrey ; Sussex / by F. Shoberl. 1813.--v.15. pt. 1. Wiltshire / by J. Britton. 1814.--v.15. pt. 2. Warwickshire / by F.C. Laird. 1814.--v.16. Yorkshire / by J. Bigland. 1812.--v.17. North Wales / by J. Evans. 1812.--v.18. South Wales / by T. Rees. 1815. |
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