Antiquities of the City of Westminster
Subtitle: the old palace, St. Stephen's Chapel, (now the House of Commons) &c. &c. Containing two hundred and forty-six engravings of topographical objects, (of which one hundred and twenty-two no longer exist,)
By: by John Thomas Smith. The literary part ... by John Sidney Hawkins ...
Contributors: Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842
Publisher: Printed for J. T. Smith and sold by R. Ryan, and J. Manson; the letter-press by T. Bensley
Published: 1807
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Westminster Palace (London, England)
Notes: Plates drawn and/or engraved by Smith; dated Jan. 1, 1804-Nov. 19, 1807.

The plates are copper-plates, as well as aquatint and mezzotint plates.

Plate facing p. 48 (Painted Chamber), unsigned and without title or imprint, is a lithograph; generally considered the first lithograph to be used as an illustration in an English book.

Lowndes. Bibliographer's manual; Dict. nat. biog.; D. Bland. A hist. of book illustration, p. 250. Cf. also J. R. Abbey. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, no. 210 (a later issue).

"List of subscribers": p. [273]-276.

Includes bibliography.

Library's copy 1 is first edition, 1st issue, with dedication to George III signed "The Author", with lithograph, but without half-t.p., advertisement (1 leaf) after dedication, Smith's "Vindication" (16 p.) or "List of plates" (1 leaf) after preface.

Library's copy 2 is first edition, 2nd issue, with the second state of the t.p., the half-t.p., different state of the dedication to George III signed John Thomas Smith, including advertisement (1 leaf) after dedication, but without Smith's "Vindication" (16 p.) or "List of plates" (1 leaf) after preface.