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[004156] [Model Display] Matchless Exhibition – Maddox Street, (Opposite St. George’s Church) Hanover Square. Grand Model of the Church of St. Peter’s, Rome, Brilliantly Illuminated, in Imitation of the Lighting-up of St. Peter’s During the Holy Week. London: No Publisher, 1840. First Edition. 16mo (Oblong). Unbound. Leaflet. Good. Single sided printed leaflet, approximately 225mm x 140mm in size

Small amount of loss to left hand margin, lightly browned, otherwise clean

Date is from the John Johnson Collection at the Bodleian. Exhibition announcement for a model imitation of the illumination of St. Peter’s in Rome during holy week, when paper lanterns were set alight simultaneously with pans full of pitch and pine shavings

Not found in Library Hub, but there is a copy in the John Johnson Collection