The history of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, its antiquities and monuments.
London: R. Ackermann, 1812. First edition, first issue (i.e. first plate in second volume signed F. Mackenzie), 2 volumes, 4to, pp. [iii]-xvi, [2], 330, [6]; [2], 275, [5]; engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved plan, hand-colored lithograph half-title in vol. II, 79 hand-colored aquatints, lacking plate 11 ("Fragments and Arches"); bound without the half-titles in contemporary full calf with double gilt rules on covers enclosing a large central gilt lozenge, neatly and sympathetically rebacked in tan calf to match, red and black morocco labels and gilt design in the panels matching that on covers; some rubbing at extremities, many of the plates offset, several pages with some spotting, but in all a very good, sound set. Tooley, 2. Abbey, Scenery, 213. Prideaux p. 331. Item #29097
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