<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The microcosm of London : this work already honoured ...</dc:title><dc:date>[1808-10]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>BEIN ByzL 080:  The Yale copy has the following earmarks: Text in first state, with errata uncorrected. Vignette on dedication leaf in vol. 2-3 the same. Contents leaf of v. 1 in first state (headed "Contents"). Imperfect: t.p. of v. 1 bled, and printer's imprint cut away; v. 2-3 lack half-titles. Title-page of v. 2, no comma after "Bensley", in printer's imprint. Of the six key-plates, those in v. 1 are in the first state, the two plates in v. 2-3 being in the second state.</dc:description><dc:description>BEIN 1994 +31: Plate binding order as instructed by printer. Contents bound before introduction in v.1; after introduction in v. 2, 3. Text in second state. Hand colored illustrations.</dc:description><dc:description>BEIN 1994 +31 (cont'd): Plate 1: 2nd state; plate 2: 2nd state; plate 4: 1st state; plate 7: variant with shadows made of lines; plate 8: 2nd state; plate 9: 2nd state; plate 10: 1st state; plate 11: 1st state; plate 12: 1st state; plate 17: 1st state; plate 18: 2nd state; plate 21: 2nd state; plate 28: 1st state; plate 39: 2nd state; plate 50: variant with lines in stack of flagstones lower right hand corner; plate 91: 3rd state.</dc:description><dc:description>BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bound in red half levant morocco by Riviere. Gilt edges. Bookplate: R.H. Isham. Of the 12 key plates, 8 are in the first state. Plates 28, 29, 41, and 42 transposed. Plate 30 numbered 29; plate 85 numbered 85 second; plate 86 numbered 101; plate 87 numbered 86; plate 88 numbered 87; plate 89 numbered 88; plate 101 numbered 102; plate 102 numbered 103; plate 103 numbered 104; plate 104 numbered 89.</dc:description><dc:description>BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is bound in gilt-tooled diced calf. Bookplate: James Comferford. 1st state, errata uncorrected. V. 1: 1st state, lettered "Contents."  Of the 12 key plates, 5 are in the first state: plates 4,5,6,7,8. Plates 1,3, 9,  and 10 in second state. Plate 12 in third state. Plates 28, 29, 41, and 42 transposed. Plate 30 numbered 29; plate 85 numbered 85 second; plate 86 numbered 101; plate 87 numbered 86; plate 88 numbered 87; plate 89 numbered 88; plate 101 numbered 102; plate 102 numbered 103; plate 103 numbered 104; plate 104 numbered 89.</dc:description><dc:description>BAC: British Art Center copy 3 is bound in calf with tree calf inlay on front and back covers. 1st state: errata uncorrected. V. 1: 1st state, lettered "Contents."</dc:description><dc:description>Architectural features delineated by Augustus Pugin; figures added by Thomas Rowlandson.</dc:description><dc:description>Aquatint engravings by Richard Harraden, John Hill, J. Bluck, Joseph Constantine Stadler, and Thomas Sutherland; after Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson.</dc:description><dc:description>Text by William Henry Pyne (vol. 1-2) and William Combe (vol. 3).</dc:description><dc:description>Volume 1 printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand. Volumes 2 &amp; 3 printed by Harrison and Rutter, 373, Strand.</dc:description><dc:description>Illustrations on 104 leaves of plates.</dc:description><dc:description>Title page is engraved.</dc:description><dc:description>Includes index.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>