The Antiquities of England and Wales

Pictures and Maps from “Complete HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS of a New and Elegant COLLECTION of PICTURESQUE VIEWS and REPRESENTATIONS of the ANTIQUITIES of ENGLAND and WALES: Being a Grand Copper-Plate Repository of Elegance, Taste, and Entertainment containing a New and Complete Collection Of superb VIEWS of RUINS and ANTIENT BUILDINGS [etc. etc.]” by Henry Boswell, Esq. F.A.S., London, some time around 1786.

The plates in this book are copies of the ones in Grose’s Antiquities, which obviously saved Mr. Boswell a lot of money in preparing his book but these days might be considered a little improper. Or to put it another way, it’s an eighteenth-century rip.

The maps are not taken from Grose’s book, however.

I do not own a copy of this book. The scans were made at low resolution (300dpi) and in uncorrected colour; I bought them on a CD at an ebay store, Outpost164; if you do the same you might also want the CD of vol III of Grose’s Antiquities sold there. It does bother me that the seller is clearly buying the books, scanning the images, then rippping the books apart to sell the plates.

140.—The Old Kitchen at Stanton Harcourt, in Oxfordshire

Published according to Act of Parliament by Alex^r. Hogg, N^o 16 Paternoster Row. [more...]

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The Mode in which Antient Castles were generally built.

The Mode in which Antient Castles were generally built. 1 The Barbacan.
2 The Ditch or Moat.
3 Wall of the outer Ballium.
4 Outer Ballium.
5 Artificial Mount.
6 Wall of the inner Ballium.
7 Inner Ballium.
8 Keep or Dunjeon. [more...]

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The Mode in which Antient Castles were generally built. (version with no caption)

This is a version of The Mode in which Antient Castles... but without the caption. Antient is an old way to spell “ancient.” [more...]

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A New & Correct MAP of the Counties of Argyle, Bute and Dumbarton

A New & Correct MAP
of the COUNTIES of
ARGYLE,
BUTE, and
DUMBARTON,
Drawn from the latest
& Best Authorities. [more...]

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Antique Eighteenth-Century Map of the Western Islesof Scotland

A
NEW MAP of the
Western Isles
of
SCOTLAND,
Drawn from the latest
& best Authorities. [more...]

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Antique Eighteenth-Century Map of Bedfordshire

BEDFORDSHIRE
Engraved from an
Accurate Survey
B T Kitchin Geog. [more...]

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Antique Eighteenth-Century Map of Berkshire

BERKSHIRE
Drawn from the
Best Authorities
and Regulated by
Astronomical Observations
By T. Kitchin Geog^r. [more...]

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Antique Eighteenth-Century Map of Oxfordshire

The map of Oxfordshire from Boswell’s 1786 Antiquities. [more...]

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