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[United Kingdom - London] BARJAUD, Jean-Baptiste-Benoît; LANDON, Charles-Paul-Description de Londres et de ses édifices [...]. Ouvrage faisant suite à la Description de Paris et de ses édifices [...]. Paris, C. P. Landon, 8vo: viii-239-[1 bl.]-4 pp.; pl. (foxing). Contemp. tree calf, gilt-orn. flat spine, red edges, blue paper pastedowns and flyleaves (sl. rubbed, sm. loss to head, prospectus f. on lower pastedown). First edition of a description of London by the French poet Barjaud (1785-and painter Landon (1760-1826). Illustrated with a fold. plan parlty hand-coloured, 8 portraits and pl. of monuments (St-Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, St Dunstan's Church, Lambeth Palace, Old Palace Yard, Eton College, etc.). Prov. Unidentified mod. bookpl.