Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bretagne, ou, Description exacte des palais de la reine et des maisons les plus considerables des seigneurs & des gentilshommes de la Grande Bretagne
Subtitle: le tout dessiné sur les lieux, & gravé sur 80 planches où l'on voit aussi les armes des seigneurs & des gentilshommes
Contributors: Knyff, Leonard, 1650-1721; Collins, Ja. (James), illustrator; Sadler, Thomas, junr., illustrator; Mortier, David, printer
Publisher: Chez David Mortier ...
Published: 1708
Place of publication: A Londres
Language: fre
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Palaces; Pictorial works; Early works to 1800; Historic buildings; Description and travel; Domestic Architecture; Landscape gardening
Other titles: Description exacte des palais de la reine et des maisons les plus considerables des seigneurs & des gentilshommes de la Grande Bretagne
Work titles: Britannia illustrata. French
Notes: Title vignette: coat of arms of Great Britain.

Title-page in red and black.

First published in 1707 as "Britannia illustrata". Cf. ESTC.

Plates printed on sheets 44 x 56 cm folded to 44 x 28 cm.; plate 24* on sheet 44 x 80 cm. folded to 44 x 28 cm.

Plates are engraved by Johannes Kip from drawings by Leonard Knyff.

Each illustration is a single sheet, folded in the center.

In the list of plates, the first plate is the title vignette (coat of arms).

Plates numbered in plate 2-21,22/23,23,24, 24*, 25-80.

Plate 24* signed in plate Tho. Sadler junr. delineavit 1700, Ja. Collins sculp:.

Avery Classics copy: Plates 5 and 21 not numbered in plate.

Avery Classics copy: Plate 3 has title: "le Palais et Parc de St. James St. James Palace and Park".According to the text, plate 2 is entitled be "Le palais royal de S. James" and plate 3 should be "Le parc de S. James". If there are two plates, Avery Classics copy lacks plate 2.

Avery Classics copy: Plates 4 (Le chateau royal de Windsor), 6 (Le palais royal de Sommerset), 7 (La tour de Londres) and 8 (Le palais archiepiscopal de Lambeth) wanting.

Avery Classics copy: A plate entitled "Nonsuch Palace from a print by George Hoefnagle 1532" has been pasted on the p. opp. t.p.

English short title catalogue, T154200

Title page and introductory text in French; captions to the plates in English.