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Verlag: St. Clement's Episcopal Church, St Paul, Minnesota, 2007
ISBN 10: 0979283302ISBN 13: 9780979283307
Anbieter: Cambridge Books, Cambridge, MN, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 308 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Life new. Signed by Smtih on the half title page. Signed by Author(s).
Verlag: St. Clement's Episcopal Church, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2007
ISBN 10: 0979283310ISBN 13: 9780979283314
Anbieter: Cambridge Books, Cambridge, MN, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 308 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Both the book and the dust jacket like new.
Verlag: London: Printed for Henry Clements at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's church-Yard, 1710., 1710
Anbieter: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, USA
"SACHEVERELL, Dr. Henry (1674-1724). Collections of Passages Referr'd to by Dr. Henry Sacheverell in his Answer to the Articles of his Impeachment. London: Printed for Henry Clements at the Half-Moon in St. paul's church-Yard, 1710. Folio (12 6/8 x 8 inches). Half-title. 28-pages, numbered 1-24 (disbound). Dr. Henry Sacheverell was the Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist, whose incendiary sermon "The Perils of False Brethren", had reignited controversy over the legitimacy of the revolution of 1689. "A sermon given to the lord mayor, aldermen, and council of London in St Paul's Church on 5 November 1709 was considered too subversive to be ignored. Such sermons normally took the opportunity to compare the Gunpowder Plot with the landing of William of Orange on 5 November 1688 as a double deliverance from popery. Instead Sacheverell compared the plot not with the revolution of 1688 but with 30 January 1649, the day on which Charles I was executed; both were: indelible monuments of the irreconcilable rage and bloodthirstiness of both the popish and fanatick enemies of our Church and Government These TWO DAYS indeed are but one united proof and visible testimonial of the same dangerous and rebellious principles these confederates in iniquity maintain. (Sacheverell, The Perils of False Brethren, 1974, 3). He thus turned the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot into an attack upon Catholics and dissenters" (W. A. Speck for DNB). ESTC T79. Catalogued by Kate Hunter".
Verlag: Printed at the Theatre, for Richard Clements: and sold by Mr. Knapton in Ludgate-Street, Mr. Clark under the Royal Exchange, Mr. Rivington in St. Paul's Church Yard, London; Mr. Thurlbourn in Cambridge, and Mr. Leake in Bath MDCCXLV. [1745]., Oxford:, 1745
Anbieter: Noushin Books & Company, Hamden, CT, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 8vo. 39, [1]pp. In modern paper wraps with label on front cover. Leaves clean and bright with a few negligible spots of foxing. Very good. A sermon on the importance of self-humiliation and prayer, especially during war. ESTCT3056. [Fasts and feasts Church of England].
Verlag: London: Printed for Henry Clements, at the Half-Moon in St Paul's Church-Yard, 1709., 1709
Anbieter: Sam Gatteno Books, Grosse Pointe, MI, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Octavo. 24pp. A8, B4. Disbound. ESTC N8926.
Verlag: Printed by J.L. for H. Clements, at the Half-Moon in St Paul's Church-yard. 1713, 1713
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
36pp. 8vo. Disbound; outer pages a little dusted. ESTC T7300.
Verlag: London: printed for J. Barber on Lambeth-Hill; and H. Clements in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1713
Anbieter: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
8vo in fours, pp. 39; disbound. Second edition; preceded by a folio printing earlier the same year. A fine copy, complete with the half-title. A contemporary hand has written 'Read' on the title page, and has identified three people featured in the text. Foxon T453; Horn, Marlborough, 435.
Verlag: London : printed by W. B. for W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, R. Gosling at the Mitre near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street, and H. Clements at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1712
Anbieter: MW Books, New York, NY, USA
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First Edition. Very good copy in the original full, blind-tooled aniline calf. Professionally and period-sympathetically re-backed with a red leather, gilt-blocked title label. Raised bands. Panel edges somewhat rubbed and dulled as with age.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 245 pages; Physical desc.: [6], xlvi, [12], 245, [3]p. ; 19cm. Subjects: Primitive church - Church history - early works to 1800. With three final advertisement pages. Probably printed by William Bowyer. Signatures: A(8) a-c(8) B-Q(8) R(4). Signatures from Maslen & Lancaster. Referenced by: ESTC citation no.: T18064. 1 Kg.
Verlag: London : printed by W. B. for W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, R. Gosling at the Mitre near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street, and H. Clements at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1712
Anbieter: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irland
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First Edition. Very good copy in the original full, blind-tooled aniline calf. Professionally and period-sympathetically re-backed with a red leather, gilt-blocked title label. Raised bands. Panel edges somewhat rubbed and dulled as with age.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 245 pages; Physical desc.: [6], xlvi, [12], 245, [3]p. ; 19cm. Subjects: Primitive church - Church history - early works to 1800. With three final advertisement pages. Probably printed by William Bowyer. Signatures: A(8) a-c(8) B-Q(8) R(4). Signatures from Maslen & Lancaster. Referenced by: ESTC citation no.: T18064. 1 Kg.
Verlag: London: printed for B. Lintott between the two Temple Gates and H. Clements at the Half-moon in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1709
Anbieter: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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8vo, pp. [xxxii], 536, [2] table of contents; with separate title pages for individual pieces, but continuous signatures; some early leaves dust-soiled and creased, with small tears (particularly A1); but otherwise a sound copy, in contemporary panelled calf, rebacked. First edition: much of this volume is devoted to three long prose works: (a) Animadversions on the Pretended Account of Danmark (1694), attacking the well-known Whig account by Robert Molesworth (to whom it is ironically dedicated, as 'Mr M---' ) (b) A Journey to London, in the Year, 1698 (1698), a parody of Martin Lister's Journey to Paris; and (c) Dialogues of the Dead (1699), a satire on Richard Bentley and the Phalaris controversy. There are also a number of previously published poems, such as 'Molly of Mountown', first printed in 1704 as 'by the author of the Tale of the Tub'. At the end is a collection of twenty miscellaneous poems, including 'The Old Cheese', 'The Skillet', 'Little Mouths', 'The Beggar Woman', and 'The Incurious'. The book is dedicated to the members of the 'immortal' Beef-Steak Club, which is odd: the original club was founded in about 1705 as an offshoot of the whiggish Kit Cat Club and King would surely have been out of sympathy with them. Several other Beef Steak Clubs have followed, most of them similarly whiggish and liberal rather than tory. Foxon p. 399.
Verlag: London printed for J. Bowyer at the Rose in Ludgate-street H. Clements at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-yard T. Varnam and J. Osborn at the Oxford-Arms in Lombard-street, 1714
Anbieter: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
8vo, pp. xxviii, 223; contemporary panelled calf, upper joint cracked but holding; later morocco label on spine, and gilt crest at foot of spine/ First and only edition: a posthumous publication of work by Sir John Denham (1615-69). It seems to have been rescued from oblivion because it had come to the notice of Samuel Woodforde, who had been a university contemporary of Denham's son: this young man, also John, who perhaps died young, may have passed it to Woodford. In any case, this edition was published by Samuel's son Heighes Woodford (1663-1725), who was a cleric and vicar of Epsom, Surrey: he dedicates the book to the Earl of Derby, who was married to Denham's granddaughter. Well before its publication, however, Denham's version had effectively been overtaken by the famous metrical version by Tate and Brady (1696), which is perhaps why it was never reprinted. Nevertheless, it repays reading, if only for Denham's own preface, here on pp. xiii-xxviii.
Verlag: printed by J.B. for John Wyat at the Rose, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street; and Henry Clements at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1714
Anbieter: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Zustand: Very Good. 1st edition. Full contemporary calf, G+. 3 volumes. [xxx]+384pp, [xii]+386pp, xiv+[ii]+368pp, attractively bound in paneled speckled calf with blind stamped ruled decoration with scallop motif, gilt spine with raised bands & red morocco lettering piece, upper board of volume I crudely re-attached with gummed paper, all hinges cracked but holding, wear to the edges & corners of the leather & scuffing to the rear board of volume III as if the book has been placed upon a rough surface at some time. Internally a fine set, occasional spotting to the text & yellowing of the paper, name in ink to the pastedown of each volume, ink library stamp 'Cornwell House' on the endpaper of each volume. Volume I is a 3rd edition, volume II a 2nd edition & volume III a 1st edition. A collection of some 45 sermons by the Yorkshire rector Richard Fiddes [ 1671 - 1725 ] who was rector of Halsham in Holderness in Yorkshire from 1696 - 1712. Noted as a 'very hard drinker' he went to London in 1712 for the sake of his health having found Yorkshire to damp & was presented to Swift on the strength of his writing. A keen supporter of the Tory administration of Queen Anne until her death when his support for the party wanned, he 'vigorously approved the tory measures to secure the Church of England against the encroachments of dissent.' [ODNB]. 1350 grams.
Verlag: Printed for the Author; and Sold by R. Wilkin, at the King's Head, and Hen. Clements, at the Half Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard., London, 1714
Anbieter: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: ESTC T14233. 8vo. 4.25 x 6.75 inches. 96 pp. Part II begins, p. 78. Some text in black letter. Disbound pamphlet in later green paper wrappers with ink title on spine label. Foxing and staining, title page and last page darkened; otherwise a fine crisp copy. Ownership inscriptions of Henry Rowlandson of Bradlay Field (probably Bradlay Field, near Kendal), 1730, on title page and verso with another inscription on margin of G2. An anti-Quaker pamphlet, by the Quaker apostate, Francis Bugg (1640-1727). Of a Suffolk yeoman family, he was a staunch Quaker from his joining the Friends in 1657 (suffering distraint of goods and spending over three years in the harsh conditions of Ely prison) until 1675. In the period 1675-80, he became increasingly disenchanted with his co-religionists and there was a serious falling-out over the payment of a fine they imposed on him. He began to conform to the Church of England, and in 1682 published the first of a long series of anti-Quaker books and pamphlets, which appeared over a period of nearly forty years. An early version of The Picture of Quakerism appeared in 1697 and this 1714 pamphlet of two parts was followed up by another six parts, published in a collected edition in 1719. His writings tended to be intemperate, vituperative and repetitive. Defoe wrote: 'I am told it is very difficult for him to write anything he has not printed before, and that has not been often answered' (quoted in DNB). His publishing output was so vast that he lost most of his estate in paying his printer's bills. In this work he refers to 'that impostor George Fox,' and Part II has ten sections entitled 'Their first empty Barrel. or Sham' to 'Their tenth empty Barrel.' A scarce work; COPAC records copies in only six libraries (British Library, Oxford (Christ Church and Magdalen), Cambridge, Lambeth and Glasgow. HISTORY/THEOLOGY QUAKERS THEOLOGY- CHRISTIAN 18TH CENTURY PAMPHLETS HISTORY/THEOLOGY.
Verlag: London printed for Henry Clements at the Half Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1719
Anbieter: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
8vo, pp. 88, including an engraved frontispiece (both title and frontispiece laid down on old paper); and some vignettes by Vander Gucht; title rather browned; bound in 19th-century calf, covers decorated in blind and gilt, spine gilt, black morocco label (one label wanting, binding dull, extremities of spine chipped). First and only edition: one of the author's earliest publications. Francis Peck (1692-1743) came from Lincolnshire and was educated at St. John's College Cambridge. After taking orders in 1716 he became a curate in Northamptonshire in August 1719, the same month that this book was published. In 1723 he became Rector of Goadby, Leics., where he spent the rest of his life; but his main interests were in literature and local history, and he became one of the most distinguished antiquaries of his generation. This elegy is in blank verse: its advantages over rhymed couplets are discussed in the preface, where rhyme is described as 'a Tinkling of Sounds to please the Ear, instead of the true Sublime, which is to satisfie the Judgment with the Harmony of Words, the Justness of Thought, and the Delicacy of Expression'. Peck had a lifelong interest in Milton, and published a scholarly account of his life and works in 1740. This work is ascribed to Peck in a copy in the British Library, and also in the Rawlinson manuscripts in the Bodleian; it is further given to Peck in the list of his works in the original DNB. In addition, some old notes in this copy also confirm him as the author, 'upon the authority of Thomas Rodd'. At the end are three shorter poems, with their own title page; this section ends with a postscript, asking readers to furnish material for a forthcoming study of the last days of Charles I, which never appeared Foxon P137. Scarce: ESTC lists twelve locations, but none in Cambridge. Provenance: early 19th century notes on a small piece of paper pinned to the endpaper; stamp of Alexander Gardyne, 1883.
Verlag: In the Savoy printed by J. Nutt: and sold by Henry Clements at the Half-Moon in St. Paul s Church-yard; Charles King at the Judge s Head in Westminster-Hall; and Edward Nutt at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleet-Street, 1716
Anbieter: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, Vereinigtes Königreich
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1st Ed. Folio. xii + 535pp. + [iii]. Index. Browned and spotted, modern e.ps., rebound in modern period style speckled calf with blind motifs, gilt ruling and gilt lettered label to spine. Presented to Berkeley Divinity School by Rt. Rev. John Williams Fourth Bishop of Connecticut, founder and Dean for forty years of the School.ESTC T111946.John le Neve (1679-1741 antiquary. D.N.B. . greatest work, [the above] It was a work of immense labour. Le Neve utilised Bishop Kennett s Collections , and Browne Willis said the Bishop was its real compiler. But this is an exaggeration. Le Neve chiefly depended on original researches, which he pursued at a time when documentary evidence was difficult to access. The reception of the book did not encourage him to undertake a supplement, but before the end of the century twenty copies, fully annotated and brought up to date by eminent antiquaries were extant . US$559.
Verlag: London: printed for John Barber on Lambeth-Hill; and Henry Clements at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1713
Anbieter: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Folio, pp. [ii], 22; in new stiff wrappers. First edition. This poem is not a celebration of the peace which was under negotiation in 1713 at Utrecht: rather, it is a Tory satire on the Duke of Marlborough, and on the evil consequences of the Whig faction. The poem has one point of compelling interest, in that there is a record of it in Swift's Journal to Stella, in the entry for 1 April 1713: 'After dinner we all [the party included Thomas Parnell] went to Ld. Bol. who had desired me to dine with him, but I would not, because I had heard it was to look over a dull poem by Parson Trapp, upon the Peace.' The following day he adds, 'I was this morning with Ld. Boling. -- and he tells me a Spanish courier is just come I was prevail'd on to come home with Trapp, and read his poem, & corrected it, but it was good for nothing'. Swift's actual share in the poem is of course impossible to determine. Foxon T451; Horn, Marlborough, 435. This is the first issue, with a paste-on cancel slip at the foot of p. 19, correcting two lines of verse; in some copies, these have been corrected in type.
Verlag: Oxford: printed at the Theatre for Richard Clements; and sold by J. and J. Rivington in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1753., 1753
Anbieter: Sam Gatteno Books, Grosse Pointe, MI, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Quarto. 38, [ii]pp. A4-E4. With a final advertisement leaf. Nineteenth-century cloth. With armorial bookplate of Christopher Sclater Millard. English Short Title Catalog, T4279. Bound with: Heathcote, Ralph. A letter to the Revd. Thomas Fothergill, : M.A. Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford; relating to his sermon preached before that university on Tuesday, January 30, 1753. Upon the reasonableness and uses of commemorating King Charles's martyrdom.
Verlag: London: printed for B. Lintott between the two Temple Gates and H. Clements at the Half-moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1709
Anbieter: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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8vo, pp. [xxxii], 536, [2] table of contents; with separate title pages for individual pieces, but continuous signatures; a fine copy in contemporary speckled panelled calf, spine gilt, later brown morocco label (a little rubbed, very slight wear to upper joint and the tips of the spine). First edition: a copy on large and fine paper, with no watermark, and about an inch taller than copies on ordinary paper, with a star watermark. This is the first substantial collection of the author's writings, no doubt prompted by the success of his Art of Cookery, published the year before. After graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, William King (1663-1712) began a legal career, but soon turned professional writer, with a predilection for satire and parody. His high-church Tory pamphlets earned him the approval of Swift, who tried to help him find employment, but somehow King never prospered. John Gay once said that King had 'a world of wit, yet as it lies in one particular way of raillery, the town soon grew weary of his writings'. Much of this volume is devoted to three long prose works: (a) Animadversions on the Pretended Account of Danmark (1694), attacking the well-known Whig account by Robert Molesworth; (b) A Journey to London, in the Year, 1698 (1698), a parody of Martin Lister's Journey to Paris; and (c) Dialogues of the Dead (1699), a satire on Richard Bentley and the Phalaris controversy. There are also a number of previously published poems, such as 'Molly of Mountown', first printed in 1704 as 'by the author of the Tale of the Tub'. At the end is a collection of twenty miscellaneous poems, including 'The Old Cheese', 'The Skillet', 'Little Mouths', 'The Beggar Woman', and 'The Incurious'. The book is dedicated to the members of the 'immortal' Beef-Steak Club, which is odd: the original club was founded in about 1705 as an offshoot of the whiggish Kit Cat Club and King would surely have been out of sympathy with them. Several other Beef Steak Clubs have followed, most of them similarly whiggish and liberal rather than tory. Foxon p. 399.
Verlag: Printed for H. Clements in St. Paul's Church-yard, W. Fleetwood in Westminster-Hall near the Parliament-Stairs, and J. Stephens in Butcher-Row, 1719
Anbieter: HALEWOOD : ABA:ILAB : Booksellers :1867, PRESTON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 8vo. [8], xxii, [2], 352 pp. (light toning) with theTitle page within a double ruled border, woodcut head-pieces. half-title. Conferences between the Brahmans and Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg who apparently wrote the reports. Contemporary calf, rebacked matching style. ESTC T130511. A Good Copy.
Verlag: London: Printed for Henry Clements at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church -Yard. MDCCXVI, 1716
Anbieter: John Price Antiquarian Books, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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FIRST LONDON EDITION. Small 8vo, 167 x 98 mms., pp. viii, 9 - 217 [2178 - 223 Contents and adverts, 224 blank], recentlky rebound in half chocolate calf, marbled boards, dark olive morocco labels, gilt rules, gilt ornaments on spine, with date in gilt at base of spine. A very good copy, with the bookplate of Peter Stewart Young, Tillingham on the front paste-down end-.paper ,and inscribed on the rect of the second leaf, "The Dean of Ross/to/ The Dean of Devon/ 28 Feb. '28". Peter Browne (d. 1735) came from a well-established Irish family and progressed quickly to high offices in the Church. He established a reputation for intelligence in discourse and pithiness in argument, with the publication of a riposte, A Letter in Answer to a Book Entitled Christianity not Mysterious by John Toland. The present work is a further development of arguments by Browne in his A Discourse on Drinking, in Remembrance of the Dead, which attracted a reply from "A Country - Curate," entitled A Brief Examination of the Bishop of Cork's Discourse, of Drinking to the Memory of the Dead (Dublin, 1714). Both discourses attracted some attention, but I am partial to a comment made in 1841, in T. Croften Croker's volume, The Historical Songs of Ireland about Brown's 1714 volume, that, "His notion was that drinking to the dead was tantamount to praying for them, and not, as is truly the case, in approbation of certain conduct or principles. Neither whigs nor tories have been less copious in their libations in consequence; and the only effect Dr. Brown's books appear to have had, was the production of an addenda to the obnoxious toast, 'and a fig for the Bishop of Cork.'".
Verlag: Sold by the Author; John Nicholson; Andrew Bell; W. Taylor; Henry Clements; And Jos. Smith, London. Douglas Coffee-house in St. Martins Lane; Little Britain; Cross-keys in Cornhil; Pater-Noster Row; St Pauls Church-yard; Exeter-Change., 1715
Anbieter: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. CAMPBELL Ca. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Three Volumes, ALL First editions (1715, 1717, & 1725), 230 engraved plans & elevations. 3 vols in half calf over worn marbled boards, vellum corners. Re-spined, to style, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles to morocco labels. Vol 1, 1715, engraved title & dedication leaves, [3], 4-10, 98 pls of 100 (includes 13 double page). Vol 2, 1717, engraved title page, [1], 2-8, 97 of 100 pls (20 doubles). Vol 3, 1725, [5] includes red & black ink letterpress title, 6-12 pp, 94 of 98 pls (15 doubles, 1 quad). Subscribers list with each Vol. 230 engraved plans & elevations only on 289 of 298 plates (includes 53 double-page & folding, + 1 quad pl). Vol 1, vertical crease to pl 89. Vol 2, plates 46 & 59 with ink splashes & specks, double-page plate of Longleat with repaired vertical closed tears and double-page plate 99/100 marked & dust-soiled. Vol 3, plates 89 & 90 mis-bound, occasional toning, dust-soiling and few marks. Text leaves in English only. Armorial bookplate of Lord Napier to upper pastedowns, front free endpapers with later ownership inscription 'Thomas Balbirnie, Architect & surveyor, Glasgow, 1846'. (V1-493*366. V2498*354. V3-491*361 mm). (Harris 97 & 99; Archer 32.1 & 33.1; Fowler 76. TP Connor). Vol 1 lacking double-page plate numbered 86/87 - Greenwich Hospital Double Pavilion to the river. Vol 2 lacking double-page plate numbered 73/74 - Cliveden House, & pl 93 - Dyrham House. Vol 3 lacking double-page plate numbered 3/4 - Greenwich Hospital in Perspective, and double-page plate numbered 5/6 - Castle Howard in Perspective. By taking part in the making of a lavishly illustrated book, Campbell established a method of self-promotion for an aspiring architect which was to last the century. Vitruvius Britannicus, a record of the principal private and public British buildings of the time, was prepared by a group of booksellers active in the print trade during 1714. At a fairly late stage in the preparation of this costly enterprise they appear to have employed Campbell to give a more up-to-date and specifically architectural slant to volumes which would otherwise have been of a more conventionally topographical character. Campbell was presented as the author on the title-page; he probably wrote the introduction as well as the brief text which accompanied the plates for each building. Most importantly, he was able to include many of his own (mostly unexecuted) designs. ODNB. Thomas Balbirnie (1816-1867) was an architect and surveyor. Thomas travelled to the United States in 1850 and was the architect for some several structures in the city of Baltimore, including the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church.