Leicester Square : its associations and its worthies. / By Tom Taylor. With a sketch of Hunter's scientific character and works, by Richard Owen ... With illustrations.

Tom Taylor

RA Collection: Book

Record number

24/762

Author

Tom Taylor

Imprint

London: Bickers and Son, 1874

Physical Description

vi, [2], 495, [1] p., folded frontis., plates (some folded), photographs (including ports.): illus., maps (2 folded.); 192 mm.

General Note

Printer statement on the verso of the title-page (andncolophon on verso of page 495): 'Chiswick Press : - Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, / Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.'

List of photographs: 1. Sir Isaac Newton by Vanderbank. 2. William Hogarth by himself. 3. Sir Joshua Reynolds by himself. 4. John Hunter by Sir Joshua Reynolds. 5. Leicester Square with Shakespeare Fountain by James Knowles. 6. Busts in the garden, of Hogarth by Durham, Newton by Weekes, John Hunter by Woolner, Reynolds by Marshall.

Binding Note

Quarter-bound in red leather on marbled-paper covered boards; spine lettered in gilt, 'Leicester / Square. / - / Taylor.' and '1874'.

Name as Subject

John Hunter
William Hogarth
Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA

Subject

Garden squares England London History - Leicester Square (London, England) - Leicester Square (London, England) History - London Streets and squares Leicester Square

Contributors

Sir Richard Owen, contributor
Bickers and Son (London), publisher
Whittingham and Wilkins (London), printer