Historical and literary curiosities : consisting of fac-similes of original documents, scenes of remarkable events and interesting localities, and the birth-places, residences, portraits, and monuments, of eminent literary characters, with a variety of reliques and antiquities connected with the same subjects / selected and engraved by late Charles John Smith, F.S.A.

  • Smith, Charles John, 1803-1838.
Date:
1852
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Publication/Creation

London : H. G. Bohn, 1852.

Physical description

viii, 87 unnumbered pages, 100 (i.e. 101) preliminary leaves : portraits, plan, facsimiles ; 30 cm

Notes

Error in binding: plates 99 and 100 interchanged
Part of plates printed on both sides; plates partly colored, partly double
Matter descriptive of the plates scattered at intervals among the plates
Plates 85-89 are letterpress
First issued in 8 pts., 1835-40. The work, interrupted at pt. 6 by the author's death, was completed by H.G. Bohn.

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    BYB.41.AA8

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