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1827 1ed LONDON Metropolitan Improvements England Architecture Cathedrals BEAUTY

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1827 1ed LONDON Metropolitan Improvements England Architecture Cathedrals BEAUTY

Thomas Shepherd was a 19th-century English historian who focused his career on the history of London. One of his books was Metropolitan Improvements â€“ a work describing various architectural feats around London and its environs. In it, Shepherd describes houses and royal halls, churches and cathedrals, prisons and hospitals, streets, bridges, and much more. This 1827 first edition includes 43 impressive full-page engravings of iconic London sights.

Item number: #19987

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SHEPHERD, Thomas

Metropolitan improvements, or, London in the nineteenth century, displayed in a series of engravings of the new buildings, improvements, &c. by the most eminent artists from original drawings, taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work

London : Jones, 1827. First edition.

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Collation:

vi, 7-8, 80

Wanting p. 29-32, last page(s)

43 engraved plates

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

Red-brown cloth

Size: ~11.25in X 9in (28.5cm x 22.5cm)

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