Westmonasterium, or, The history and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peters, Westminster
Subtitle: containing an account of its ancient and modern building, endowments, chapels, altars, reliques, customs, privileges, forms of government &c. with ye copies of ancient Saxon charters &c. and other writings relating to it : together with a particular history of the lives of the abbats [sic], collected from ancient MSS. of that convent and historians, &c. : the lives of the deans to this time : and also, a survey of the church and cloysters, taken in the year 1723 : with the monuments there, which, with several prospects of ye church & other remarkable things, are curiously engraven by the best hands : in 2 vol.
By: by ... John Dart ; to which is added Westminster Abbey, a poem, by the same author ; vol. I[-II].
Contributors: Hancocke, Morer (bookplate); Hancocke, Morer (autograph); Embury, John (autograph); Faber, John, 1695?-1756
Publisher: Printed & sold by James Cole ..., Joseph Smith ..., Tho. Bowles ..., Jer. Batley ..., Tho. Taylor ..., John Bowles ..., and by Andrew Johnstone
Published: 1723
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Westminster Abbey; Abbots; Sepulchral monuments -- England
Other titles: History and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peters, Westminster; Westminster Abbey
Notes: Later editions of this title have an amended engraved title-page with varying imprints and "taken in the year 1723" replaced with "King Henry 7th's Chappel."  Cf. Monthly Catalogue for May 1723 and April 1729 and B. Adams' London Illustrated, no. 27.

Each volume contains a list of subscribers, together with their coats of arms.

Vignettes; initials; tail-pieces.

Engraved mezzotint port. of the author signed: I. Faber.

Fisher L-10 copy: With the autograph and armorial bookplate of Morer Hancocke, 1726 [Franks, 13602] on front pastedown.  With the autograph of John Embury, 1776 on armorial bookplate.