Introduction to the original Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, intituled The beauties of England and Wales : comprising observations on the history and antiquities of the Britons, the Romans in Britain, the Anglo-Saxons, the Anglo-Danes, and the Anglo-Normans : together with remarks on the progress of ecclesiastical, military, and domestic architecture in succeeding ages
Introductory volume by James Norris Brewer to The Beauties of England and Wales, printed in London for J. Harris in 1818, surveying British, Roman, Saxon, Danish and Norman antiquities and architecture for antiquarian readers. The plates here are letterpress statistical tables of the 1811 census, ruled into columns of houses, occupations and persons by county hundred, plus a stone-pattern marbled endpaper in grey, black, red and yellow.
