Oxonia antiqua restaurata : containing upwards of one hundred and seventy engravings, amongst which are numerous representations of buildings in Oxford, now either altered or demolished, and which have never been before engraved : the whole forming an illustration of the colleges, halls, and public buildings in this university / by Joseph Skelton.

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Creator:: Skelton, Joseph, 1783–1871
Title(s):: Oxonia antiqua restaurata : containing upwards of one hundred and seventy engravings, amongst which are numerous representations of buildings in Oxford, now either altered or demolished, and which have never been before engraved : the whole forming an illustration of the colleges, halls, and public buildings in this university / by Joseph Skelton.
Published/Created:: Oxford : Printed by S. and J. Collingwood and published by J. Skelton, Magdalen Bridge, 1823.
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 35 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
LF510 .S6 1823+ Copy 1 Oversize
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/579105
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Engravings by Joseph Skelton and Benjamin Green; after Ralph Agas, Joseph Skelton, George Vertue, Samuel Wale, James Green, Edward & Michael. Rooker, Isaac Taylor, Daniel Harris, Wilson Lowry, Edward Dayes, J. M. W. Turner, James Basire, Hugh O'Neill, Anthony Woods, Michael Burghers, Wenceslaus Hollar, J. B. Malchair, Archdeacon (John Lewis?) Gooch, David Loggan, John Donowell, Frederick Mackenzie, John Couldrey, and John Chessell Buckler.
With an added engraved title page.
Cordeaux, E.H. Bibliography of printed works relating to the University of Oxford, 315
List of subscribers: v. 1, p. [13]-[16]
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 bound in contemporary gilt-tooled diced calf. Armorial ookplate of William Robert Hay. Copy 2 bound in blind- and gold-tooled navy morocco, with gilt edges. Armorial bookplate: Ilchester.
Subject Terms:: Fox-Strangeways, Earl of Ilchester -- Bookplate.
Hay, William Robert, 1760 or 1761-1839 -- Bookplate.
University of Oxford -- Buildings.
University of Oxford -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:: Engravings.
Steel engravings.
Subscriber's lists.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Contributors:: Green, Benjamin, 1739-1798, engraver.
Agas, Ralph, 1545-1621, ill.
Basire, James, 1769-1822, ill.
Buckler, John Chessell, 1793-1894, ill.
Burghers, M., ill.
Couldrey, John., ill.
Dayes, Edward, 1763-1804, ill.
Donowell, John, -1793, ill.
Green, Benjamin, 1739-1798, ill.
Green, James, 1729-1759, ill.
Gooch, John Lewis, ill.
Harris, Daniel, approximately 1761-1840, ill.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, ill.
Loggan, David, 1635-1700?, ill.
Lowry, Wilson, 1762-1824, ill.
Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 1798-1854, ill.
Malchair, John, 1730-1812, ill.
O'Neill, Hugh, 1784-1824, ill.
Rooker, Edward, -1774, ill.
Rooker, Michael Angelo, 1746-1801, ill.
Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807, ill.
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851, ill.
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, ill.
Wale, Samuel, -1786, ill.
Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695, ill.
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