A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom : adorned with a variety of copper plate cuts, neatly engraved
A two-volume English topographical guidebook published by Robert Goadby in London in 1776, describing public buildings, royal palaces and country seats for domestic travellers and antiquarian readers. The copper plates are small architectural views of houses, churches and garden monuments, printed on thin laid paper that shows letterpress and plate impressions through from the other side; useful for building elevations, park settings, and aged paper textures with foxing and show-through.
