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Kip, Joannes.
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description
- Britannia Illustrata or Views of Several of the Queens Palaces as also of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain. London: for David Mortier and Daniel Midwinter, 1709
Folio (480 x 307mm.), engraved title with royal arms (plate number 1), letterpress text table, 79 double-page engraved plates (numbered 2-21, '22 & 23', 23-80), mounted on guards, engraved by or after Kip, Leonard Knyff and others, nineteenth-century half calf, title and some plates strengthened at margins or repaired (occasionally into image), stain to title and margins of a few plates, some creases at folds, edges a little rubbed
Provenance
Donald Aylmer Cameron, armorial bookplate
Literature
RIBA 386
Catalogue Note
a tall copy with wide margins.