Westminster improvements. A brief account of ancient and modern westminster: with observations on former plans of improvement, and on the objects and prospects of the westminster improvement company, including a statement of the measures now intended to be pursued
by [BARDWELL, William]
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Smith and Elder, Fraser, Weale, Williams, and Reid, 1839. 58pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's printed mauve wrappers. Rubbed and dulled, backstrip worn. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, ink inscription to upper wrapper: 'The Revd. Canon Conway / Rector / from the Author'. A presentation copy of the second edition (printed in the same year as the first) of an authoritative survey of the progress of the Westminster Improvement Company, intended to solicit further attention to plans to develop the area. The Gentlemen's Magazine (Vol. XI, p.180) received the pamphlet favourably: 'Independently of the matters immediately relating to the company, Mr Bardwell has compressed into this tract a great body of interesting topographical information on the site and buildings of the ancient city of Westminster, which will be valuable and amusing to those who are not immediately interested in the objects of the Westminster Improvement Company.' . Second edition. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ28825
- Title
- Westminster improvements. A brief account of ancient and modern westminster: with observations on former plans of improvement, and on the objects and prospects of the westminster improvement company, including a statement of the measures now intended to be pursued
- Author
- [BARDWELL, William]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- Smith and Elder, Fraser, Weale, Williams, and Reid
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1839
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Local Interest, Topography
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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