hand-book for the architecture, sculptures, tombs, and decorations of Westminster Abbey
By: with fifty-six embellishments on wood, engraved by Ladies and four etchings by David Cox, Jun. ; by Felix Summerly.
Contributors: Thompson, Eliza, engraver; Waterhouse, Annie, fl. 1850s; Thompson, Isabel A., engraver; Williams, M. A. 1788-; Clarke, H. L. fl. 1840s.; Vizetelly Brothers & Co.
Publisher: George Bell
Published: 1842
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Westminster Abbey -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Other titles: Hand-book for Westminster Abbey; Handbook for Westminster Abbey; Westminster Abbey
Notes: Added wood-engraved illustrated t.p. included in pagination.

P. 137 misnumbered "13".

Etched plates are unsigned.

Illustrations within the text are drawn by Lady Callcott, H. Cole, D. Cox Jun., Miss Webster, Mrs. F. Thompson, Lady Palgrave and Eliza Thompson.

Illustrations within the text are engraved by Eliza Thompson, Jane Green, Laura Bond, Charlotte Bond, Juliet Dudley, Mary Waterhouse, Augusta Thompson, Anne Waterhouse, Anne Cowper, Isabel Thompson, Eliza Muddle, Martha Compton, Fanny Clarke, Laura Muddle, Ellen Busk, Mary A. Williams, Harriet Clarke and Mary Percival.

"The Cover is copied from the Arcades in the Chapter House, which still preserve remnants of their original colouring.  Labels, with inscriptions, are on the walls.  The Letters on the Cover are taken from Queen Eleanor's Monument.  The Letters on the Title-page from Henry the Seventh's Chapel."--Index to Artists' Names, p. xi.

Includes wood-engraved decorative and illustrated initials.

"Four years ago, I ventured to urge, in a quarterly Review, that wood engraving was a very suitable occupation for ladies; and that the world would probably allow the practice of this art to be one of the few employments not degrading to them.  Since that time, the lady-professors of this delicate art have increased, at least six-fold; and I am happy to add, that as far as my experience extends, they seem to have risen in the world's estimation.  To prove their capacity, my "Hand-book for Hampton Court," was wholly illustrated by them; and the experiment so far succeeded, that it has induced the Government School of Design to contemplate the formation of a class, for the instruction of female pupils in the art.  This little work will shew that progress has been made, even during the last year.  Some generous amateurs have cheerfully associated their drawings with their sister artists' engravings. Having laid on me no injunctions of secresy, I should repay their kindness with bad grace, if I did not appear in my own name.  Yet, as the public have welcomed warmly the little works which I have published, as Felix Summerly, I shall not drop, on this or any similar occasion, the name I adopted, as expressive of the feelings with which I wrote them.--Preface, signed "Henry Cole.".

Includes "Appendix.": p. [113]-148.

MASS copy: Bound in white paper-covered boards printed in red, gold, maroon, black and blue; t.e.g.  Upper cover with titling and wood-engraved illustrated border.  Lower cover printed with publisher's advertisements.  With yellow painted endpapers.  Lower paste-down endpaper with small inkstamp: "M.W.D.N.".