Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository of elegance, taste, and entertainment. Containing a new and complete collection of superb views of all the most remarkable ruins and antient buildings, such as abbeys, castles, monasteries, priories and other religious houses, bridges, cathedrals, churches, chapels, towers, gates, arches, walls, antique houses, mansions, antient hospitals, colleges, palaces, monuments, nunneries, and other miscellaneous curiosities of antiquity, situate in different parts of England and Wales. All accurately drawn on the several spots, by artists of the first eminence, and finely engraved by the most celebrated engravers, whose names will always be affixed to their respective performances