The beauties of Stow : or a description of the pleasant seat and noble gardens of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Cobham ; with above thirty designs, or drawings, engraved on copper-plates, of each particular building / by George Bickham.

Main entry:

Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, author.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : Printed by E. Owen for George Bickham, M. DCC. L. [1750]

Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 67 pages, 31 unnumbered leaves of plates : black-and-white illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)

Notes:
"Prints and books ... printed for George Bickham ...": 3 pages at end.
McNamara 136

Resources:
The Internet Archive

Subject:

Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 1669?-1749 Homes and haunts England Buckinghamshire Early works to 1800.
Stowe (England) Early works to 1800.
Stowe Gardens (England) Early works to 1800.
Stowe Gardens (Angleterre)
England Stowe Gardens.

Form/genre:

Copper engravings (visual works)

Holdings:

Location: Library cage y harris 8283
Call No.: ID:87-B21220
Status: Available

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