Main entry:

Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.

Title & Author:

Antiquities of Westminster--the old palace, St. Stephen's Chapel (now the House of Commons), &c. &c. : containing two hundred and forty-six engravings of topographical objects, of which one hundred and twenth-two no longer remain / by John Thomas Smith.

Publication:

London : Printed by T. Bensley ... for J.T. Smith ..., 1807.

Description:

xv, 276 pages, 36 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 37 cm

Notes:
Title, v. 2: Sixty-two additional plates to Smith's Antiquities of Westminster.
"This work contains copies of manuscripts which throw new and unexpected light on the ancient history of the arts in England."
Text by J.S. Hawkins. After a quarrel with Smith, Hawkins' work was revised by other hands, and at his own request his name was omitted from the t.p.
Plates printed by John Dixon, according to a note on page 276.
"List of subscribers": p. [273]-276.
Wood engravings in the text by William and John Berryman, according to a note on p. 37.
Plates by the author, J. Jeakes, Isaac Mills, S. Rawle, J. Bryant, Frederick Christian Lewis, G. Arnald, and W. J. White; after the author, Nathaniel Smith, Thomas Sandby, Canaletti, and G. Arnald.
Illustrations: 100 plates of various media (wood and copper engraving, aquatint, etching, mezzotint, lithograph), of which 14 are hand-coloured. Plate 13 "is the first known instance of a lithograph being used to illustrate a book". Cf. Twyman, Lithography, p. 30. This plate is present only in the first 300 copies.
Large paper copy.
Library c. 1: 1 v. only; lacks the 62 additional plates listed in Abbey.
Library c. 1: armorial bookplate of Robert Barclay, Bury Hill; bookplate of Shelley Holford, Essex.
Library c. 2: armorial bookplate of Sir David Salomons Bart., Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells.

Subject:

Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842. Correct statement and vindication of the conduct of John Sidney Hawkins.
Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842. Proposals for publishing by subscription ... an account and explanation of the paintings ...
Westminster Palace (London, England)
Antiquities.
Westminster (London, England) Antiquities.
England London Westminster.

Form/genre:

Subscription lists.

Added entries:

Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833. Sixty-two additional plates.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833. Mr. John Thomas Smith's Vindication.
Provenance. Salomons, David, Sir, 1851-1925. Bookplate
Bookplates. Salomons, David, Sir, 1851-1925.
Provenance. Barclay, Robert. Bookplate
Provenance. Holford, Shelley. Bookplate
Bookplates. Barclay, Robert.
Bookplates. Holford, Shelley.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 2968
Call No.: 2378
Copy: c. 2 v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library cage m 2969
Call No.: 2999
Copy: c. 1 v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library cage m 241428
Call No.: 2378
Copy: c. 2 v. 2
Status: Available