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John Britton

Male : Book illustrator, esp of steel engravings. Topographer. Worked with E W Brayley
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Kingston St Michael, Wiltshire

Date of Birth : 1771 Date of Death : 1857 Age : 86
1801-1810
The Beauties of Wiltshire
(1801-25 for Vernor & Hood, London) - 3 vols
The Beauties of England & Wales
(1803-14) - 18 vols
An Historical Account of Corsham House in Wiltshire, the Seat of P C Methuen
(1806 Joseph Barrett, Bath)
A Topographical & Historical Description of the County of Leicester
(1807 London)
The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain
(1807-26 Longman) - 5 vols
(1835 Nattali, London) - 5 vols
Offered in 1991 for £350

1811-1815
The Fine Arts of the English School
(1812 Longman)
An Historical & Architectural Essay relating to Redcliffe Church, Bristol
(1813 Chatterton, London)
The History & Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury
(1814 Longman Hurst)
The Rights of Literature, or An Enquiry into the Policy and Justice of the Claims of certain Public
Libraries on all the Publishers and Authors of the United Kingdom, for Eleven Copies, on the Best
Paper, of Every New Production
(1814 London)
[The 11 copies were claimed by the following libraries : British Museum, Zion College,
University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh, University of Aberdeen,
University of Glasgow, University of Perth, The Advocates' Library - Edinburgh,
Trinity College - Dublin & King's Inn - Dublin ]


1816-1820
The History & Antiquities of the See and Cathedral Church of Norwich, Illustrated with Engravings
(1816 London) - Large Paper
The History & Antiquities of the See and Cathedral Church of Winchester
(1817 London)
Norwich Cathedral Vade Mecum : Antiquarian and Architectural Memoranda relating
to Norwich Cathedral Church
(1817 London)
Lancashire, or Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical and Descriptive of That County
(1818 London)
The History & Antiquities of the Metropolitical Church of York
(1819 Longman, Hurst)
The History & Antiquities of the See and Cathedral Church of Lichfield
(1820 London)

1821-1825
The History and Antiquities of the Metropolitical Church of Canterbury, Illustrated by Engravings
(1821 London)
The History & Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Oxford
(1821 Longman)
Graphical and Literary Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire
(1823 Author, London)
The History & Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Wells
(1824 Longman, Hurst)
The History & Antiquities of Bath Abbey Church
(1825 London)
Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London
(1825-8 for J Taylor) - 2 vols. with A Pugin
Offered in 1999 for £320

1826-1830
The History & Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Exeter
(1826 London)
The Union of Architecture, Sculpture & Painting
(1827 for Author, London)
The History and Antiquities of the Abbey & Cathedral Church of Peterborough
(1828 Longman) - Large Paper Edition
(1836 M A Nattali, London)
Bath and Bristol, with the Counties of Somerset and Gloucester, Displayed in a Series
of Views from Original Drawings
(1829 London)
Modern Athens, displayed in a Series of Views, or Edinburgh in the 19thC
(1829 London)
The History & Antiquities of the Abbey & Cathedral Church of Gloucester
(1829 London)
Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities
(1830 Longman)
Offered in 1998 & 1999 for £650
The History & Antiquities of the Abbey & Cathedral Church of Bristol
(1830 London)

1831-1835
The History & Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Hereford
(1831 London)
Descriptive Sketches of Tunbridge Wells & the Calverley Estate
(1832 Author, London)
Devonshire & Cornwall Illustrated, with Historical & Topographical Descriptions
(1832 Fisher & Jackson, London) - with Edward Wedlake Brayley
The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church in Worcester
(1835 Longman)

1836-1840
The History & Antiquities of the Metropolitan Church of Canterbury
(1836 Nattali, London)
The History of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament at Westminster
(1836 John Weale, London) - with Edward Brayley
The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Oxford
(1836 Nattali)
The History and Description, with Graphic Illustrations of Cassiobury Park, the Seat
of the Earl of Essex
(1837 London)
A Dictionary of the Architecture & Archaeology of the Middle Ages
(1838 Longman)
Drawings of the London & Birmingham Railway, with an Historical
& Descriptive Account
(1839 London) - John Cooke Bourne
Graphic Illustrations with Historical & Descriptive Accounts of Toddington,
Gloucestershire
(1840 London)

After 1841
Account of Stonehenge : Written for the Penny Cyclopaedia
(1842 W Clowes) - 50
Architectural Illustrations of Windsor Castle, by M Gaudy & B Baud, with a Concise Historical
and Architectural Account by J Britton
(1842 London)
Memoir of John Aubrey, FRS
(1845 Nichols, London)
Offered for £220 in 1999
Catalogue of Books, Prints, Maps, Acts of Parliament relating to Wiltshire
(1851 J Britton, London)
Reminiscences of Literary London from 1779 to 1853
(1853 PP, London) - with Thomas Rees
(Ed) The Quarterly Magazine of the High Wycombe Natural History Society (1866-70 Wycombe)
The History and Antiquities of Bath Abbey Church
(1887 Charles Hallett, Bath)

Related Writers

British Museum
Dictionary
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See also

Railway Books Of The 19thc