Frontispiece.Liberty presenting Britannia with Magna Charta, the Bill of Rights &c...
Dayes delin. Grainger sculp.
[London: W. & J. Stratford, c.1795.]
Engraved frontispiece to 'A New and Complete History of England, from the first settlement of Brutus ... to the year 1793, etc' by Charles Alfred Ashburton. 335 x 215mm, 13¼ x 8½". Tatty extremities; creasing.
An allegory, set into a decorative frame; with Britannia from her throne next to a recumbent lion instructing personifications of various European states in the ways of British liberty and prosperity.
British Library: 000127483.
[Ref: 14869] £140.00
[London: W. & J. Stratford, c.1795.]
Engraved frontispiece to 'A New and Complete History of England, from the first settlement of Brutus ... to the year 1793, etc' by Charles Alfred Ashburton. 335 x 215mm, 13¼ x 8½". Tatty extremities; creasing.
An allegory, set into a decorative frame; with Britannia from her throne next to a recumbent lion instructing personifications of various European states in the ways of British liberty and prosperity.
British Library: 000127483.
[Ref: 14869] £140.00