An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York, from their first foundation to the present year. Illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c.
John Dart (d.1730)
Category
Books
Date
1755
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3219457
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 144, [4] p., [91] leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms, map, plans ; fol. With a loose engraving 'View of chapter house and cloisters Canterbury Cathedral' inserted after p. 54 and an additional engraving of the tomb of Thomas Bourchier pasted onto blank leaf following p. 54. Provenance: armorial spade shield bookplate (not in Franks) on front pastedown: anonymous, with motto 'Ardua petit ardea' [unidentified]. Label on front pastedown: 'J. H. Burgess' [unidentified], with manuscript date "1921" added in pencil. Front fly-leaf inscribed "R.W. Ketton-Cremer Felbrigg 1955" [i.e. Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]. Manuscript codes in ink on front and rear pastedowns. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; sewn on six raised bands; blind roll pattern along board edges; spine rebacked (nineteenth-century) in gold-tooled sheepskin, with gilt title on red goatskin label. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
John Dart (d.1730), author Francis Drake (1696-1771), author