South View of AUDLEY END Essex & Ground Plan c1807 (2 prints)
from Architectual Antiquities of Great Britain
Represented and Illustrated in a Series of Views, Elevations, Plans Sections and Details
of Various Ancient English Edifices With Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Each By John Britton, F.S.A.
Printed for: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row
Good condition, engraved prints on medium weight gilt edged wove paper.
Blank to verso. Approx Sheet Size: 10.75" x 8.5" (27mmx 215mm).
First published in "The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain...by John Britton" published by Longman & Co, Paternoster Row and J Taylor High Holborn London by John Britton. John Britton FSA (1771–1857) was an English antiquary, author and editor. After some slight successes as a writer, a Salisbury publisher commissioned him to compile an account of Wiltshire and, in conjunction with his friend Edward Wedlake Brayley, Britton produced The Beauties of Wiltshire (1801; 2 vols., a third added in 1825), the first of the series The Beauties of England and Wales, nine volumes of which Britton and his friend wrote. Britton was the originator of a new class of literary works. "Before his time", says Digby Wyatt, "popular topography was unknown." In 1805 Britton published the first part of his Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain (9 vols., 1805–1814); and this was followed by Cathedral Antiquities of England.
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