A Descriptive and Historical Account of Various Palaces and Public Buildings, English and Foreign. With biographical notices of their founders or builders, and other eminent persons

Brewer (James Norris).   Sixteen engraved plates, a number in proof state W.H. Wyatt,  1810 First Edition   4to Contemporary half sheep, rebacked. With the half-title Binding rather rubbed and some spotting, staining and offsetting internally, but a very good copy  Brewer was a contributor to the Beauties of England and Wales series and here provides accounts of Somerset House, Linlithgow Palace, India House, the Escurial, Windsor Castle, the Seraglio of Constantinople, the Cotsea Bhaug (Hindustan), Hampton Court, Monte Cavallo, Warwick Castle, the Trevi Fountain, the Castle of Conway, Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood House and the Pantheon of Paris. 

Price: £250