Proposals for printing by subscription an ancient Roman tesselated pavement, found at Littlecot, in the parish of Ramesbury, in the county of Wilts.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [London?] : [publisher not identified], [1752] |
| Description | 1 sheet ; 1/4⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| General note | Dated at head: March 1752. |
| General note | At foot is a receipt to be completed in MS. |
| General note | The sale of the two large plates is "for the benefit of the widow of the person that first discovered this curious pavement, and drew the original from whence these plates are to be engraved". The widow = Mary George. |
| General note | Samuel Lewis's 'A topographical dictionary of England', 1835: "An accurate drawing was made ... by Mr. William George, ... and his widow worked a beautiful carpet, on a reduced scale, from which it was finally engraved, at the expense of the Antiquarian Society". |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, T232283. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Genre/form | Prospectuses. |