Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bretagne ...
Publisher: Chez Joseph Smith ...
Published: 1724
Place of publication: A Londres
Language: fre
Subjects: Palaces; Domestic Architecture; Landscape gardening; Historic houses; Eddystone Lighthouse (England)
Notes: Second edition.

Collation: t. 1: 6 p. l., 79 pl.; t. 2: 4 p. l., 69 pl.; t. 3: 1 p. l., 8, 5-8 p., 1 l., 24 p. (text in English and French) 48 pl.; t. 4: 2 p. l., [3]-12 p., 66 pl. (incl. "Veue des villes &c. en Ecosse"); [t. 5]: 5 p. l., 84 pl.

8 plates engraved by Hollar bound in at end of [t.5]

Title in red and black; title vignette.

Tome 3 has added t.-p., engraved (with vignette) dated 1719.

[Tome 5] has title: Supplement du Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bretagne ... A Londres, Chez J. Groenewegen & N. Prevost ... 1728.

Tome 1 was originally published in 1708 with the title "Britannia illustrata, or Views of several of the Queen's palaces ... [etc.]" and an added t.-p. in French, as above.

Tome 1 contains copper-plates, engraved by J. Kip from drawings by Leonard Knyff. The plates in t. 2, with a few exceptions, were both drawn and engraved by Kip, hence the work is often known by his name. Tomes 3 and 4 are by different artists. The Supplement contains, among others, 27 plates by Henry Winstanley, some dated 1676-80, including those of Audley End and that of Eddystone light-house.
Table of contents: title: t. 1-2. Description exacte des palais du roy et des maisons les plus considerables des seigneurs & des gentilshommes.; title: t. 3. Description exacte des archevechez & evechez d'Angleterre. De leur fondations, cathedrales, le nombre d'eveques qui y ont siegez, avec les revenus & armoiries des dioceses, & autres eglises.; title: t. 4. Description exacte des villes, et palais du roy, et les ports de mer.; title: [t. 5] Description exacte des maisons les plus considerables des seigneurs & des gentilshommes de la Grande Bretagne. Avec les plans de plusieurs villes, abbayes, & eglises cathedrales d'Ecosse.