Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
History of the monument : with a brief account of the great fire of London, which it commemorates / by Charles Welch.
Call Number
N-000414
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/zp38wh607
Publisher
London : Prepared and printed under the direction of the City Lands Committee of the Corporation of London, 1893.
Language
English
Date Created
1893
Extent
119 pages, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Provenance
GAX copy: Extra-illustrated copy with many engravings, printed broadsides, and 2 albumen photographs, related printed ephemera and printed guides to the Monument, as well as ms. letters and ms. notes added; collected by Aleck Abrahams of Willesden Green, London.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
GAX copy Includes: 1. 'Another Dreadfull Suicide at the Monument by a Young Woman' (380 x 253 mm), [Printed and published by E. Lloyd, c. 1842] (illustrated broadside); 2. Popular woodcut print (400 x 160 mm), [c. 1810], with contemporary colour, showing man and woman throwing themselves off the Monument; 3. 'Another Suicide by Precipitation from the Monument' [London, 1839], 12mo (140 x 85 mm), pp. 10 with large folding dramatic woodcut (430 x 140 mm) (pamphlet); 4. 'Just published the authentic particulars of the most determined and frightful suicides of a Youth ... also the full account of Miss Moyes, by throwing themselves of the Monument ... London, published by G. Gilbert ... printed by T. Goode ..., [1839], 8vo (178 x 105 mm) (pamphlet); 5. Bound in or kept in the rear pocket are the following printed guide books to the Monument: a) Arnott, Samuel. The column called the Monument, described, erected to perpetuate the dreadful Fire of London in the year 1666 ... London, printed by J. Bryan ... for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of the Monument, [1805]. Large 12mo, pp. 22, including frontispiece woodcut of the Monument; b) Woodward, Thomas. The History of the Monument in London. London, printed for Thomas Woodward, Keeper of the Monument, [1865?]. 12mo. pp. 24, [2], printed on thin paper stock, in the original illustrated yellow wrappers, wrappers with small holes. Two more copies, one undated '1872' edition, and the other undated '1880' edition, both in excellent condition in wrappers. c) Welch, Charles. History of the Monument. Third edition. London, 1898. 12mo (120 x 90 mm), pp. 62, in illustrated white wrappers, in excellent condition.
Binding Note
GAX copy: In original printed wrappers; the whole collection bound in black morocco and marbled boards, ca. 1910, by "T. Ross, Binders to the King," with pocket on inside lower cover containing printed guide booklets; rebacked with part of the original spine laid down.

Discovery Information

Subject
London (England). Monument
Fires—England—London

Physical Characteristics

File Count
251

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e8da4b5e-6b6b-44bd-be82-5432b0bb4165/manifest