Britannia illustrata or views of several of the Queens palaces as also of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry of Great Britain curiously engraven on 80 copper plates. Vol. I. (-II)
Johannes Kip (Amsterdam c.1653 – Westminster 1722)
Category
Books
Date
1714
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 3196615
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., 80 plates, double-spread (some fold.). ill., fol. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: Verney. Inscription on front endpaper mostly erased: ‘Bibliotheca ??’ Diced calf, gold-decorated, brown spine-panels, gold-lettered. Title-page in vol. 2 is a mounted leaf with small-scale text block, ‘Vol. II’ inserted in ink
Makers and roles
Johannes Kip (Amsterdam c.1653 – Westminster 1722) Leendert Knijff (Haarlem 1650 – London 1721)