Explore Collections
You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
London; being an accurate history and description of the British metropolis and its neighbourhood, to thirty miles extent, from an actual perambulation. By David Hughson, LL.D. ...
Browse
PUGH, David (d. 1813)
London; being an accurate history and description of the British metropolis and its neighbourhood, to thirty miles extent, from an actual perambulation. By David Hughson, LL.D. ...
London (Place), printed by W. Stratford, for J. Stratford; and sold by all other booksellers,, 1805--10.
4 [ex 6] vols ; 21.0 cm. (8º)
I: 652 p., add. engr. t.-pl., frontis., port., [7] pl.
II: 560 [i.e. 540] p., add. engr. t.-pl., fold. map (coloured), [10] pl. : wdcut. illus.
III: 640 p., add. engr. t.-pl., [11] pl. : wdcut illus.
IV: 579, [1] p., add. engr. t.-pl., [25] pl. : wdcut illus.
Hughson is the pseudonym for David Pugh. His 'Description of London' was published over a period of 5 years in 149 Numbers of about 24 pages each, making 6 volumes. This is the first edition. In vol. III the plate facing p. 96 is captioned 'Bank of England, taken by permission from a drawing in possession of J. Soane, Esqr.', and corresponds to the view of the Lothbury Wall and Tivoli Corner signed and dated John Soane Archt. 1807. (SM 12/1/7).
Copy Notes Imperfect; vol. I wanting the plates; vol. III wanting additional engraved title and 6 pl.; vol. IV wanting additional engraved title and 11 pl.; indexes wanting to vols. I--IV. Sixty-nine plates found at the end of vol. IV of this copy are from vols. V--VI which are wanting. See B. Adams, London illustrated 1604--1851 (1983), no. 93, pp. 201--5. Volume II has a scrap of blotting paper with partly legible date 28 July/ 18[??] (possibly in Soane's hand) inserted as a bookmark at p. 445.
Binding C19th calf, gilt roll-tool borders, gilt-rule spine, maroon and green spine-labels. Bound by Hood and McCullock for 13s. on 13 August 1827. (Priv. Corr. XVI.E.6.14).
Reference Number 2494
Additional Names Hood & McCullock; Hughson, David, pseud
London; being an accurate history and description of the British metropolis and its neighbourhood, to thirty miles extent, from an actual perambulation. By David Hughson, LL.D. ...
London (Place), printed by W. Stratford, for J. Stratford; and sold by all other booksellers,, 1805--10.
4 [ex 6] vols ; 21.0 cm. (8º)
I: 652 p., add. engr. t.-pl., frontis., port., [7] pl.
II: 560 [i.e. 540] p., add. engr. t.-pl., fold. map (coloured), [10] pl. : wdcut. illus.
III: 640 p., add. engr. t.-pl., [11] pl. : wdcut illus.
IV: 579, [1] p., add. engr. t.-pl., [25] pl. : wdcut illus.
Hughson is the pseudonym for David Pugh. His 'Description of London' was published over a period of 5 years in 149 Numbers of about 24 pages each, making 6 volumes. This is the first edition. In vol. III the plate facing p. 96 is captioned 'Bank of England, taken by permission from a drawing in possession of J. Soane, Esqr.', and corresponds to the view of the Lothbury Wall and Tivoli Corner signed and dated John Soane Archt. 1807. (SM 12/1/7).
Copy Notes Imperfect; vol. I wanting the plates; vol. III wanting additional engraved title and 6 pl.; vol. IV wanting additional engraved title and 11 pl.; indexes wanting to vols. I--IV. Sixty-nine plates found at the end of vol. IV of this copy are from vols. V--VI which are wanting. See B. Adams, London illustrated 1604--1851 (1983), no. 93, pp. 201--5. Volume II has a scrap of blotting paper with partly legible date 28 July/ 18[??] (possibly in Soane's hand) inserted as a bookmark at p. 445.
Binding C19th calf, gilt roll-tool borders, gilt-rule spine, maroon and green spine-labels. Bound by Hood and McCullock for 13s. on 13 August 1827. (Priv. Corr. XVI.E.6.14).
Reference Number 2494
Additional Names Hood & McCullock; Hughson, David, pseud