1829 LONDON Architecture Metropolitan Improvements Engravings Cathedrals MAPS

1829 LONDON Architecture Metropolitan Improvements Engravings Cathedrals MAPS

Elmes and Shepherd’s “Metropolitan Improvements” is an early 19^th-century illustrated history of London. Illustrator Thomas Shepherd supplied this book with numerous engravings of iconic London locations – parks, palaces, cathedrals and churches, bridges and streets, rivers, institutions, and other environs. This 1829 printing includes nearly 160 views on 81 steel-engraved plates – a remarkable illustrated history of London!

Item number: #15157

Price: $750

ELMES, James

Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth century; displayed in a series of Engravings of the new buildings, improvements

London: Published by Jones & Co. and sold by Simkin and Marshall, 1829.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • vi, 172, ii
  • 81 engraved plates
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~10.5in X 8.75in (27.5cm x 22.5cm)

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