Manual of British topography, a catalogue of county and local histories, pamphlets, views, drawings, maps, etcconnected with and illustrating the principal localities in the United Kingdom . wing of Abbeyand surrounding country, after Martonsoriginal drawing in tlie British Museum,16 by 12-in., 10/6 3881 -- Tlie Wye and surroundings, fine oldivater-colour , size 21 by 13^-in.,8s 6d 3882 — and the Wye, fine, old pen and inkdrawing, c. 1820, size 19^ by 12^-in., 8s 6d 3883 — and another drawing, by A. , 1796, size of each 63,^ by , 6s the two 3884 — Part of the Ruin
Manual of British topography, a catalogue of county and local histories, pamphlets, views, drawings, maps, etcconnected with and illustrating the principal localities in the United Kingdom . wing of Abbeyand surrounding country, after Martonsoriginal drawing in tlie British Museum,16 by 12-in., 10/6 3881 -- Tlie Wye and surroundings, fine oldivater-colour , size 21 by 13^-in.,8s 6d 3882 — and the Wye, fine, old pen and inkdrawing, c. 1820, size 19^ by 12^-in., 8s 6d 3883 — and another drawing, by A. , 1796, size of each 63,^ by , 6s the two 3884 — Part of the Ruins, clever water-colour sketch by Bradford, 10 by 6^4^-in.,upright, 4s 3885 —• West Window, old sepia drawing,c. 1820, size 8 by 19-in., fi^ie, 5s 3886 — lithograph V>y Coleman, prettilycoloured, 4to., 2/6 3887 — West Window and Entrance, finelyengi-aved by Byrne, 1804, folio, 2s 6d 3888 — W. Front, fine etching by J. Coney,folio, 2s 3889 — View of a Chai:>el near, finely en-graved in colours by S. Prout, 1814, size ISby 9^-in., 4s 6d 3890 — a very clever water-colour drawingcopy of the above, 14 by 10-in., ^?!e, 6s lliiiiliiifii ir I i! 4i I, MillI W^i \im». « ^ ^^.^ ?>w< -v LONDOx\-ENGRAVINGS, DRAWINGS, MAPS, ETC. This Catalogue is a humble attempt to illustrate pictorially the changes which have occurredwithiu the great City and a radius of about four miles down to the present facility of reference an alphabetical order, based on Wheatley and CunninghamsLondon Past and Present, has been generally adopted rather than a topographicalarrangement into districts, but to pjeserve its historical character the views illustratingeach building, etc., are given as far as possible in a chronological sequence. London may be likened to an ellipse, having two foci ; one, the Ecclesiastical being the crossof St. Paul s, fit symbol of faith and history ; the other, the Commercial, may be thegrasshopper above the Royal Exchange, type of restless activ
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