Les délices de la Grand' Bretagne, & de l'Irlande [...]. Le tout enrichi de très-belles figures, & cartes géographiques, dessinées sur les originaux.

8 parts in 9 vol., 12mo: n.c.

Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spines with 5 raised bands, gilt inside dentelles, sp. edges.

First edition by J. Beeverell (1707-1727 fl.) describing a variety of views from across the United Kingdom. Ill. with 9 double-page allegorical engr. titles and a double-page allegorical engr. dedication in vol. 1 by Jan Goeree; 241 engr. pl. and maps after Loggan, Kip, Slezer, a.o. mostly double-page, some folding. Depicting royal palaces, stately homes, cathedrals, and naval towns, many now lost. A.o. 4 maps (Great Britain, England, Scotland, Ireland), 5 city or property plans (Cambridge, Oxford, London, St James's Palace and Park, plan of a garden in Nottingham), 2 pl. of costumes of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and 219 views of towns, country properties, remarkable sites or monuments (Cambridge, Oxford, Nottingham, Badminton, Stone-Henge, London Tower and Stock Exchange, Westminster Abbey).
Ref. STCN. - Brunet I:735. - Graesse I:322. - Not in Chadenat, Tiele.
Prov. J. Imbert, 1790. - Baylac, 1880 (ms. entries on flyleaf vol. 1). - Deleted entries on all the typographic titles.