Antiquities of Westminster, the old palace, St. Stephen's Chapel, (now the House of Commons) &c. &c.
Subtitle: containing two hundred and forty-six engravings of topographical objects, of which one hundred and twenty-two no longer remain
By: by John Thomas Smith.
Contributors: Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842; Harland, Robert (bookplate); Mackenzie, John, fl. 1802-1850 (binder)
Publisher: Printed by T. Bensley ... for J.T. Smith .... and sold by R. Ryan ... and J. Manson ...
Published: 1807
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Westminster Palace (London, England); Art, Medieval -- England -- London; Westminster (London, England) -- Antiquities
Other titles: Antiquities of the City of Westminster
Notes: Second issue, with 'Advertisement' dated June 9, 1807, and cancelled t.p. and dedication leaf resulting from Smith's quarrel with John Hawkins, who provided most of the text.

Plates, mostly etchings and aquatints, some with hand-colouring, dated between 1804 and 1807 are printed by John Dixon.  Wood engravings in the text by William and John Berryman.

One of the 300 copies which includes two versions of the plate 'Inside of the Painted Chamber' (facing p. 50), one a copper engraving, and the other a lithograph which is unsigned and without title or imprint. This plate is generally considered to be the first lithograph to be used as an illustration in an English book.

Includes list of subscribers (p. 273-276).

Issued with the author's Sixty-two additional plates to Smith's antiquities of Westminster. London, [1809].

Includes bibliographical references.

Abbey, Scenery, 211

MASS copy: With the bookplate of Ruari McLean. Cathedral binding on calf, unsigned, but probably by John Mackenzie, who designed an identical binding for a large paper copy of this work described in H.M. Nixon's Broxbourne Library.

Fisher copy: With the book label of Robert Harland.