Creator:

Dugdale, William, 1605-1686

Title:
The history of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, from its foundation untill these times : extracted out of originall charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts : beautified with sundry prospects of the church, figures of tombes, and monuments / by William Dugdale ...
Published / Created:

London : Printed by Tho. Warren ... ; 1658.

Physical Description:
[6], 136, 157-299, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 33 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA687 S14 D8 1658+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:

In 3 pts., each with a special t.-p.

"The duance of machabree ... made by Dan Iohn Lydgate [with the Hollar engraving of 'Death leading all estates']": p. 289-266 [ie. 296]

Most plates are paginated within the sequence of the text.

Pages 89, 174, and 293-7 are misnumbered 36, 192, and 263-7.

First printed book to delineate in considerable detail an English building.--Adams, p. 15

Plates by and after Wenceslaus Hollar.

Adams, B. London illustrated, 8

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700, D 2482

Contents:
The history of St. Paul's cathedral in London -- A view of the monuments, situate in and about the quire, side-iles, & chapels adjacent : as they stood in September, Anno D. MDCXLI. with their epitaphs exactly imitated -- Appendix in Historiam ecclesiæ cathedralis S. Pauli ...
Exhibition History:

Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27)

Subject Terms:
Beaumont, Richard Blackett, b.1926 -- Bookplate. | Wright, James -- Autograph. | St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England) | Warren, Thomas -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1658. | Etchings -- 1658.
Contributors:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? | Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677