A brief account of three favourite country residences : to which is added Death, a poetical essay first published at Cambridge in the year 1759.

Main entry:

Porteus, Beilby, 1731-1809.

Title & Author:

A brief account of three favourite country residences : to which is added Death, a poetical essay first published at Cambridge in the year 1759.

Publication:

[London] : Luke Hansard, printer, Great Turnstile, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, [1808]

Description:

[3]-86 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Ms. title, with the additional note: N.B. It is my most earnest desire that this little book may never be reprinted or made public. B London. Augt. 24. 1808.
Author from Lowndes.
Imprint from colophon.
Aquatint illustrations by F.C. Lewis after H. de Cort and W.F. Wells.
Hunton -- Fulham -- Sundridge -- Death : a poetical essay.
Lowndes, 1929

Resources:
Donor bookplate

Subject:

Porteus, Beilby, 1731-1809 Homes and haunts.
Porteus, Beilby, 1731-1809.
Homes.

Form/genre:

Aquatints 1808.

Added entries:

Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779-1856, illustrator.
Wells, William Frederick, 1762-1836, artist.
Cort, Hendrik Frans de, 1742-1810, artist.
Death : a poetical essay.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage harris 144826
Call No.: ID:87-B18782
Status: Available

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