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The history and antiquities of the city and suburbs of Worcester

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Extra-illustrated copy with an added 152 engravings and aquatints (dated from 1746 to the mid-19th century), two manuscript letters from the Duke of Beaufort, a pencil sketch of Edward Somerset, and a watercolor sketch of Worcester.

  • Author: Green, Valentine, 1739-1813.
  • Title: The history and antiquities of the city and suburbs of Worcester … / by Valentine Green.
  • Published: London : Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co., and sold by G. Nichol … [and 13 others], 1796.

Catalog Record 

Quarto 64 W92 796

Acquired March 2018

Plan of a regular coffee plantation

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The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the early plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist.

  • Printmaker: Conder, Thomas, 1746 or 1747-1831, printmaker.
  • Title: Plan of a regular coffee plantation [graphic] / T. Conder sculpsit.
  • Published: London : Published Decr. 1st, 1791 by J. Johnson. St. Paul’s Church Yard, [1 December 1791]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

791.12.01.03

Acquired April 2014