An Historical Description of Westminster Abbey its Monuments and Curiosities Designed Chiefly as a Guide to Strangers. The New Monuments are Continued Down to the Present Year

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12mo. Pp. 189, [4]. With index. Gray paper covered boards, titles and decorations printed in black on the cover and spine, publishers advertising on the back cover, edges sprinkled. By J. Darling Printer, London. Publishers advertising leaflet on pale pink paper tipped in to back endpaper. Board edges rubbed through, front joint parting, hinges reinforced, one inch of title page head excised (please see second photo), leaves crisp and bright, binding tight. Following Prices and Hours of Admission are chapters on the nine chapels, followed by the Tombs, Poet's Corner, South Aisle, Foundation of the Abbey, Henry the Seventh's Chapel, and Monuments in the Cloisters. The last page describes two monuments "erected since this work was put to press," viz. to Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (d. 1826) and to James Watt. N° de ref. del artículo 6859

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