A poetic survey round Birmingham
Subtitle: with a brief description of the different curiosities and manufactories of the place : intended as a guide to strangers
By: by J. Bisset ... ; accompanied by a magnificent directory; with the names, professions, &c. superbly engraved in emblematic plates.
Publisher: Printed for the author; by Swinney and Hawkins, Birmingham. Sold by T. Heptinstall, London, Swinney and Hawkins, Birmingham, and all other booksellers
Published: 1800
Place of publication: [Birmingham]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Notes: The preface is dated at end: Museum, Birmingham, Jan. 1, 1800.

'A magnificent directory' has a separate titlepage and includes plates numbered A-X, 1-3.

With an index and a final leaf containing Bisset's account of the genesis of the directory.

Half-title: 'Bisset's Poetic survey round Birmingham', with the information that copies with proof plates or coloured copies or copies printed in colour could be purchased.

Goldsmiths' 17827.

ESTCT143270.

Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc. 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 3595, no. 02).

Microfilm. New Haven, CT : Research Publications, Inc. 1976. 1 reel ; 35mm. (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature ; reel 1651, no. 17827).

Microfilm. New Haven, CT : Research Publications, Inc. 1974. 1 reel ; 35mm. (Goldsmiths-Kress Library of Economic Literature ; reel 1660, no. 17921.1).