Large paper copy.
Includes Cawthorn's Minor British Theatre complete in six volumes; the whole illustrated with one hundred and seventy-six portraits and scenes, proofs lettered and before letters.
BRITISH THEATRE.—Bell's British Theatre. Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays. . . . London: printed for, and under the direction of, George Cawthorn, . . . 1797. 8vo, thirty-four volumes, green morocco, gilt back, crest on the sides, gilt edges, by J. Clarke.
Large paper copy, with proof impressions of the plates, including portraits of famous actors and actresses.
BRITISH THEATRE.—Bell's British Theatre, 1797. 8vo, Volumes I-XXII, red levant morocco, Janseniste, gilt top, uncut edges, by Triquilier.
Another copy, also upon large paper, and uncut.
BRITTON, John.—Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities illustrated by a series of engravings of Antient Buildings, Street Scenery, etc. with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject. By John Britton . . . London: Longman . . . 1830. Royal 4to, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Bedford.
Large paper copy, with India proof impressions of the sixty plates after Bartlett, and numerous woodcuts.
BRODRICK, Thomas.—Historia Sacra: or the Holy History; giving An Exact and Comprehensive Account Of all the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England, after a New and Curious Method; With their various Etymologies and Appellations, And the true Reasons and Grounds of their Celebration; . . . London: Printed for John Wyat, . . . 1705. 8vo, old blue morocco, gilt back, sides richly tooled in compartments introducing the rose, thistle, and tulip, gilt edges.
Portrait of the author by W. Sherwin and fifty plates, including, in the Appendix, the illustrations to the Gunpowder Plot, the Execution of Charles I, and the Restoration of Charles II.