The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Worcester :
illustrated by a series of engravings of views, elevations, plans, and details of that edifice, including an architectural description of the church, and biographical anecdotes of the bishops and of other eminent persons connected with the cathedral /
by John Britton.

Description

Main Author

Britton, John, 1771-1857.

Related Names

Kitton, R.
Le Keux, John, 1783-1846.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and T. Longman, 1835.

Subjects

Worcester Cathedral > Worcester Cathedral / History.
Church architecture > Church architecture / Details.
Architecture, Gothic > Architecture, Gothic / England > Architecture, Gothic / England / Worcester.
Church architecture > Church architecture / England > Church architecture / England / Worcester.
Christian antiquities > Christian antiquities / England > Christian antiquities / England / Worcester.
Wood engravings > Wood engravings / England > Wood engravings / England / 19th century.
Steel engravings > Steel engravings / England > Steel engravings / England / 19th century.

Note

Includes index.
Most plates by John Le Keux (one by George Gladwin), after drawings chiefly by R. Kitton (some by Thomas Baxter, Robert William Billings, T.H. (Thomas Hutchings) Clarke, C. Kitton, John Samuelson Templeton). Wood-engraved t.p. vignette by Samuel Williams after Billings entered in "List of prints" on p. [32] as no. xvii.
Plates have heading "Cathedral antiquities," the series published 1814-35.
Added engraved t.p., numbered as plate xiv.

Physical Description

xxxii, 31, [1], 16, [2] p., xvi leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

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