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INDEX

1. Introduction and About the Series click

2. Bernard Adams's Commentary click

3. Source of Images and Copyright click

4. Availability and Prices click
5. Plates and Images click

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PLATES AND IMAGES

Complete Series with Images (This will take several minutes.) click

Individual Plates and Images:

1. Source of the Thames click
2. Dudgrove Double Lock click
3. Lechlade click
4. Radcote Weir (image not available) click
5. Oxford taken near Osney click
6. Weir near Oxford click
7. Nuneham Courtenay click
8. Park Place near Henley click
9. Druid's Altar at Park Place click
10. Henley click
11. Temple House click
12. Harleyford House click
13. Great Marlow (image not available) click
14. An Osier Island near Cookham click
14a. View of Cookham (image not available) click
15. Cliefden click
16. Bray seen from Maidenhead Bridge click
17. The Willows click
18. Eton Bridge click
19. Old Houses at Eton click
20. Windsor Castle, taken near the Lock click
21. Beaumont Bridge near Old Windsor click
22. Stone at Staines click
23. Staines Bridge click
24. Oatlands click
25. Walton Bridge click
26. Garrick's House at Hampton click
27. Hampton Court and Bridge click
28. Lady Sullivan's Villa Thames Ditton click
29. Kingston click
30. Strawberry Hill click
31. Baroness Howe's Villa and Pope's Grotto click
32. Marble Hill Cottage near Richmond click
33. Richmond Hill (image not available) click
34. Sandycome Lodge, Twickenham click
35. Richmond seen from the Meadows near Isleworth click
35a. Richmond Bridge (image not available) click
36. Villa at Richmond click
37. Sion House click
38. Battersea click
39. The Little Belt. Breaking up at Battersea click
40. Chelsea Hospital click
41. Thames Craft, a scene from Millbank click
42. Randall's Mill at Nine Elms click
43. Lambeth Palace click
44. Opening of Waterloo Bridge click
45. The Strand Bridge click
46. Works of the Strand Bridge click
47. Elevation of one of the Arches of the Waterloo Bridge click
48. Section of one of the Arches of the Waterloo Bridge click
49. Somerset House click
50. London from Blackfriars Bridge click
51. Fair on the Thames, Feb. 1814 click
52. London Bridge click
53. Billingsgate the London Fish Market click
54. The Custom House Destroyed by Fire Feby 12th 1814 click
55. Tower of London click
56. Floating Dock at Rotherhithe click
57. Deptford click
58. Greenwich click
59. The Thames from Greenwich Park click
60. Mast House, Blackwall click
61. The Nelson on the Stocks, building at Woolwich, in the Year 1814 click
62. Launch of the Nelson at Woolwich, July 4th, 1814 click
63. Erith and Belvidere click
64. Purfleet click
65. Ingress at Greenhithe click
66. Northfleet click
67. Lime Kilns at Northfleet click
68. Gravesend click
69. Danish Greenlandsman. Breaking up below Gravesend click
70. Tilbury Fort click
71. Gateway Tilbury Fort click
72. Hadleigh Castle near Southend click
73. Leigh from near Southend click
74. The Crow Stone near Southend click
75. Southend click

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COOKE'S VIEWS ON THE THAMES (1822)

75 (plus 2 additional plates 14a and 35a) uncoloured etchings and engraved plates by W.B. Cooke and G. Cooke. Published 1818-22 in eight parts, price 7s. 6d. each part 8vo and 10s. 6d., 4to. 38 Plates are based on Samuel Owen's drawings for an earlier 1811 edition all re-engraved by W.B. Cooke. This series of prints is Series 139 as catalogued in London Illustrated 1604-1851 by Bernard Adams.


The plate above is of the Mast House, for installing ship's masts, at Blackwall. See below for a complete list and access to images of all of the plates. The images are from a bound volume in the Motco collection, but missing plates 4, 13 and 33 and and the 2 additional plates.

SOURCE OF IMAGES AND COPYRIGHT

The images in this Motco Enterprises Limited database are photographed from an original bound volume in the Motco collection.

The larger (digital) images in the database are marked as Copyright Motco 1999. They may only be copied for personal use. If you require access to the images for commercial use, in hard copy or digital form, please contact Motco.


AVAILABILITY AND PRICES

On 1 January 2000, www.abebooks.com reported one copy at US$ 1,800 from Bernard Shapero.

Bernard J Shapero, UK, US$ 1,800: 1822 First edition. Two volumes, 8vo text and large 4to atlas, 75 steel-engraved plates, wide margins, occasional light foxing mainly affecting margins only, modern half red morocco, spines gilt in compartments, raised bands, gilt lettering direct. Book # 25748

www.bibliofind.com reported one copy at £1750 from Sims Reed Ltd.

Sims Reed Ltd, UK, £1750: 1822. 2 vols. Tall 4to, 8vo. Approx. 400pp. 75 engraved plates with guardleaves, engraved title vignette to text volume. Full black morocco, gilt.

www.alibris.com reported the same two, at US$ 1,800 and US$ 2,797, but without attribution of the seller.

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Copyright 1999 MOTCO Enterprises Limited