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[LONDON] The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, its Antiquities and Monuments, London: R. Ackermann, 1812, 2 volumes, 4° (348 x 286mm.), FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, engraved portrait, plan, hand-coloured engraved title to volume II, 80 hand-coloured aquatint plates and one loosely inserted plate (portrait lightly spotted, title to vol. I browned), contemporary half roan and marbled boards (spines faded, extremities rubbed), t.e.g., bookplate of Ferdinand M. McVeagh. [Abbey Scenery 213; Tooley, p. 1-5; Upcott, p. 859] With Maitland's History of London, (London, 1739, 2°, FIRST EDITION, containing 23 engraved plates and maps only), R. Seymour & J. Marchant's The History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster (London, 1754, 2 volumes, [?] lacking one plate), Thomas Shotter Boys' Original Views of London (Guildford, [n.d.], 2 volumes) and one other work. (8)