Entrée principale:

Wood, John, 1704-1754.

Titre et auteur:

A description of Bath : wherein the antiquity of the city, as well as the eminence of its founder ; its magnitude, situation, soil, mineral waters, and physical plants ; its British works and the Grecian ornaments with which they were adorned ; its devastations and restorations in the days of the Britons, Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans ; with its new buildings, baths, conduits, hospitals, places of worship, and other public edifices ; its gates, bridges, walks, and streets, etc. are respectively treated of / by John Wood.

Édition:

2d ed., corrected and enlarged.

Publication:

London : Printed for W. Bathoe, and T. Lownds, 1765.

Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
First issued in 1742 with title: An essay towards a description of Bath. Issued first with the above title in 1749.
Most of the plates were engraved and signed by Pierre Fourdrinier after the designs of John Wood.
Described in the printed catalog to the microfilm set, "The Fowler Architectural Collection of the Johns Hopkins University," 1961, item 442
Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, 1979. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Fowler collection of early architectural books ; reel 73, no. 442).

Sujet:

Travel.
Bath (England) Description and travel.
England Bath.
Bath (Avon) Description and travel.

Vedettes secondaires:

Fourdrinier, Paul, 1698-1758.
Fourdrinier, P., fl. 1720-1760
Fowler collection of early architectural books ; reel 73, no. 442.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque study room microform 27856
Cote: ID88B11700s73 MFM; ID:88-B13717
Statut: Disponible