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Delices de la Grande Bretagne
Title
Delices de la Grande Bretagne / engraved and published by William Birch, enamel painter, Hampstead-Heath.
Publication
[London] : [William Birch], [1791]
Distribution
[London] : Sold by Edwards, Pall-Mall; and Dilly, in the Poultry, 1791.
Physical Description
[8] pages, x, [36] leaves, [36] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary gilt-stamped red morocco. Gilt edges. Armorial bookplate: J.B. Powis. Has bound in at end: "Proposals for continuing this work by subscription, till a volume is is complete" (1 page) and "List of subscribers to the British views ... June 1st 1789."
Notes
Engravings by William Birch; after Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Farrington, Abraham Pether, Richard Wilson, Mrs. M. Hartley, W. Robson, George Barret, Thomas Gainsborough, John Opie, Edmund Garvey, J. Phillips, Richard Cooper, Lord Duncannon, Philip Reinagle, T. Herne, Thomas Rowlandson, Benjamin Thomas Pouncy, Joseph Charles Barrow, William Hodges, George Samuel, Benjamin West, John Russell, William Payne, Nicholas Pocock, Richard Corbould, Philip James de Loutherbourg.
Descriptive text in English accompanying each plate.
List of subscribers, pages 3-6.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
English short title catalogue, T143282
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Aquatints - 1791.
Engravings - 1791.
Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
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