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Title(s)
Historical account [of Beleigh Abbey, Essex].
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Additional Title(s)
Historical account of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex
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Published/Created
[London] : [G. Draper], [1818]
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Physical Description
5 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 33 cm.
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NA5471.E7 D73 1818+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NA5471.E7 D73 1818+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Full Alma Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Aquatint engravings by Richard Brinsley Peake; after George Draper.
Caption title.
Consists of 5 parts. Issued without a general title page. Each part has a separate dedication leaf, all inscribed to different people, and dated between January and June, 1818. Part 1 has a short "Historical account" of 6 pages; otherwise each part consists of 4 plates with a descriptive leaf.
Anderson, J.P. Book of British topography, p. 103
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is bound in contemporary gray paper boards. Copy 2 is bound in contemporary half calf and red cloth. Armorial bookplates: Rupert Sackville Gwynne; Rupert Gunnis. -
Subject Terms
Abbeys -- Great Britain -- History. | Beeleigh Abbey (Essex, England) -- History. | Draper, G. -- Publisher. | Essex (England) -- Pictorial works. | Great Britain -- Church history -- 19th century. | Gwynne, Rupert Sackville -- Bookplate.
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Form/Genre
Aquatints -- 1818. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1818. | Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
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