Text by William Combe. Cf. BLC.
Dedication signed: R. Ackermann.
Illustrations include 1 plan, 1 stipple engraved portrait of William Vincent, Dean of Westminster, 1 line engraving, and 80 hand colored aquatints
Plates engraved by John Bluck, Henry Hoppner Meyer, Samuel Mitan, Thomas Sutherland, J. Hamble, Frederick Christian Lewis, James Hopwood, and Thomas Williamson; after Augustus Mackenzie, William Johnstone White, H. Villiers, Thomas Uwins, George Sydney Shepherd, and James Robert Thompson.
Half-title: The history of St. Peter's Westminster.
Volume. 2 has added engraved title page: Westminster Abbey and the monuments. Forming a companion and continuation of the Microcosm of London. Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of arts ... in sixteen monthly numbers.
Plate 4, the added engraved title page of volume 2, is known to exist in two states. In one state it is signed: F. Mackenzie delt; in the other: A. Pugin delt. Cf. Abbey.
Includes indexes.
"List of subscribers.": p. [vii]-xiii in v. 1.
"Arrangement of the plates.": [2] pages bound in volume 1.
Lady Walpole and Horace Walpole: v. 2, p. 157-158, and plate.