View of Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's Church, London. First built in 616 by the Anglo-Saxon king Sebert, destroyed by the Danes, rebuilt by William the Conqueror after 1066, and enlarged by Henry VIII, the two Gothic towers were added by Sir Christopher copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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