A poetic survey round Birmingham [electronic resource] : with a brief description of the different curiosities and manufactories of the place. Intended as a guide to strangers. By J. Bisset, author of the Orphan Boy, the flights of fancy, &c. Accompanied by a magnificent directory; with the names, professions, &c. superbly engraved in emblematic plates.

A poetic survey round Birmingham [electronic resource] : with a brief description of the different curiosities and manufactories of the place. Intended as a guide to strangers. By J. Bisset, author of the Orphan Boy, the flights of fancy, &c. Accompanied by a magnificent directory; with the names, professions, &c. superbly engraved in emblematic plates.

[Birmingham] : Printed for the author; by Swinney and Hawkins, High-Street, Birmingham. Sold by T. Heptinstall, Holborn, London, Swinney and Hawkins, Birmingham, and all other booksellers, [1800]

Great Britain -- England -- Birmingham.

English

62,[2]p.,plates : map ; 8⁰.

Half-title: 'Bisset's Poetic survey round Birmingham', with the information that copies with proof plates or coloured copies or copies printed in colour could be purchased.
The preface is dated at end: Museum, Birmingham, Jan. 1, 1800.
'A magnificent directory' has a separate titlepage and includes plates numbered A-X, 1-3.
With an index and a final leaf containing Bisset's account of the genesis of the directory.
Reproduction of original from British Library.

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Goldsmiths', 17827
English Short Title Catalog, T143270.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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