Antiquities of London and Environs, Engrav’d & Publish’d by J. T. Smith, Dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake, ... Containing Many Curious Houses, Monuments & Statues, Never Before Publish’d, and Also F

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++British LibraryT100005Consists of an engraved titlepage and 96 unnumbered plates, dated 1791-1800.London : pubd. by J. Sewell, R. Faulder, J. Simco, J. Manson, Messrs. Molteno and Colnaghi [and 2 others], 1791[-1800]. [97]plates ; 4°