On offer: an original (i.e. not a later reproduction) a scarce pair of books "WESTMONASTERIUM: OR THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE ABBEY CHURCH OF ST PETERS WESTMINSTER. Two Folio Volumes. London: Printed & sold by James Cole engraver in Hatton Garden. (et al) [1723-1727]. First Edition. Hardcovers, leather covered boards
Filled with plates illustrating the funeral monuments of Westminster Abbey. 

DATE PRINTED: 1723. 

SIZE: VOLUME I: [2] blank front leaves, [1] frontispiece engraving, [1] title page, [2] Dedication, [2] Preface, [5] Coats of Arms of Subscribers, [1] engraved portrait of the author John Dart, XLII Westminster Abbey a Poem, IV List of Subscribers Names, 195 pp., [1] Errata, [1] blank leaf. VOLUME I ILLUSTRATIONS: Frontispiece + 70 plates. Plates printed on one side only. Plus engraved headpieces, tailpieces, vignettes, and initials. VOLUME II: [2] blank front leaves, [1] fold-open frontispiece, [1] title page, [1] subscribers names, [2] subscribers coats of arms, 146 pp., [4] Names of Persons buried in this Church, XLIV Lives of the Abbats of Westminster, 24 pp. History of St. Peter's, XVI Appendix, [1] blank rear endpaper. VOLUME II ILLUSTRATIONS: Frontispiece + 63 Plates. Plates printed on one side only. Plus engraved headpieces, tailpieces, vignettes, and initials..

PROVENANCE:   Printed and Published by James Cole Engraver in Hatton Garden etc.

CONDITION: Very good. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. Virtually all antiquarian maps and prints are subject to some normal ageing due to use and time which is not significant unless otherwise stated. The contents clean and collated complete. Contemporary full leather.  Boards, FFEP's, endpapers and the frontispiece to volume 1 detached but present.  Old owners bookmark (Ann Lloyd) on inside covers.  Other than needing a re-bind an fine pair of a scarce publication.

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