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Red leather spine with gilt title, banding and decoration. Red and blue marbled boards. Dimensions are for one volume.Five fantastic full volumes A truly unique masterpiece
John Britton FSA (7 July 1771 – 1 January 1857) was an English antiquary, topographer, author and editor. He was a prolific populariser of the work of others, rather than an undertaker of original research. He is remembered as co-author (mainly in association with his friend Edward Wedlake Brayley) of nine volumes in the series The Beauties of England and Wales (1801–1814); and as sole author of the Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain (9 vols, 1805–1814) and Cathedral Antiquities of England (1814–1835). John Britton published his Cathedral antiquities as follows: 1814 Cathedral antiquities: Historical and descriptive accounts, with 311 illustrations, of the following English cathedrals. Viz, Canterbury, York, Salisbury, Norwich, Oxford, Winchester, Lichfield, Hereford, Wells, Exeter, Worcester, Peterborough,… Read More