8vo. viii, 147pp, [13]. With two engraved plates. Modern half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, tan cloth boards. A trifle marked, spine sunned. With a terminal contemporary 14pp catalogue of publisher's advertisements, the leaves of which all laid-down. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'To Wm. Owen Esq. R.A. / with the author's compts.'

The sole edition of antiquary and topographer John Britton's (1771-1857) critical survey of the contents of the gallery of Cleveland House, 'comprising a list of the pictures, with illustrative anecdotes, and descriptive accounts of the execution, composition, and characteristic merits of the principal paintings'; this copy inscribed to artist William Owen (1769-1825).