Westmonasterium, or, the history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peters Westminster :
containing an account of its ancient and modern building ... : with ye copies of ancient Saxon charters &c. and other writings relating to it : together with a particular history of the lives of the abbats, collected from ancient mss. of that convent, and historians; & the lives of the deans to this time : and also, a survey of the church and cloysters, taken in the year 1723, with the monuments there, which, with several prospects of ye church & other remarkable things, are curiously engraven by the best hands ... /
by Mr. John Dart ; to which is added, Westminster Abbey, a poem, by the same author.

Description

Main Author

Dart, John, -1730

Related Names

Dart, John, d. 1730.
Dowling, J.
Schijnvoet, Jacobus, active 1704-1733
Faber, John, 1695?-1756
Cole, James (Engraver)

Language(s)

English ; Latin

Published

London : Printed and sold by James Cole ... Joseph Smith ..., Tho. Bowles ..., Jer: Batley ..., Thomas Taylor ..., John Bowles ..., and by Andrew Johnstone ..., [between 1723 and 1727]

Subjects

Dart, John, > Dart, John, / -1730 > Dart, John, / -1730 / Portraits.
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey > Westminster Abbey / Poetry.
Westminster Abbey > Westminster Abbey / Designs and plans.
Westminster Abbey > Westminster Abbey / History.
Sepulchral monuments
Heraldry
Church buildings
Buildings
Abbots
Abbeys
Heraldry > Heraldry / England > Heraldry / England / Early works to 1800.
Abbots > Abbots / England > Abbots / England / London > Abbots / England / London / Early works to 1800.
Sepulchral monuments > Sepulchral monuments / England > Sepulchral monuments / England / London > Sepulchral monuments / England / London / Early works to 1800.
Abbeys > Abbeys / England > Abbeys / England / London > Abbeys / England / London / Early works to 1800.
Church buildings > Church buildings / England > Church buildings / England / London > Church buildings / England / London / Early works to 1800.
England > England / London
England
London (England) > London (England) / Buildings, structures, etc. > London (England) / Buildings, structures, etc. / Early works to 1800.
Portraits
Poetry
History
Early works
Architectural drawings
Mezzotints (prints) > Mezzotints (prints) / England > Mezzotints (prints) / England / 18th century.
Engravings (prints) > Engravings (prints) / England > Engravings (prints) / England / 18th century.

Note

Without the supplementary plates listed in Adams (no. 145-156).
Two plates have caption: J. Dowling delin.
Illustrations in vol. 2: bound as frontispiece a double-leaf plate, with caption: A Prospect of the inside of King Henry the VIIth. Chapel", engraved by Jacobus Schijnvoet; two engraved plates of subscriber's arms, each with forty-two shields, without credits; sixty-one plates depicting funeral monuments, engraved by James Cole; and several engraved large pictorial head- and tail-pieces and initials.
Illustrations in vol. 1: frontispiece engraved by James Cole after Michelangelo's Last Judgement, on dedication page large engraved armorial head-piece (Royal Hanoverian arms) and pictorial inital "A" showing the author presenting his book to the Prince of Wales; as well as several other engraved large pictorial head- and tail-pieces and initials; the list of subscribers (pp. [i]-iv, 2nd count) is followed by five engraved plates of subscriber's arms, each with forty-two shields, without credits; a mezzotint portrait of the author by John Faber (bound preceding p. i, 3rd count), one plate with caption: "Sebert or Segebert, King of the East Saxons & Ethelgoda his Queen", a portrait plate of Richard II.; three plates on double leaf depicting the exterior and interior views and the floorplan of the Westminster Abbey; and sixty-one plates depicting funeral monuments, engraved by James Cole.
"The permanent interest of this book lies in its illustrations of the funeral monuments as they appeared before being subjected to the damage ... [of the last 160 years]."--Adams, p. 59.
Woodcuts: ornamental woodcut head-pieces and initals. Engraved t.p. in each vol.
Vol 1.: [6], iv, xlii, 73 (i.e. 70) p, [12] leaves of plates; vol. 2.: [4], 146, [4], xliv, 24, xvi p., [3] leaves of plates. Included in pagination and also numbered separately are sixty-one plates in vol. 1 and sixty-one plates in vol. 2.
Imprint dates from Adams.
Vol. 1, p. [70] (4th count) is blank; vol. 1 has irregular paging, vol. 2 p. xxxv (4th count) is missigned as p. xxxiv.

Physical Description

2 v. (various pagings) : ill. (engravings), ports., plans, coats of arms ; 40 cm. (fol.)

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