Book: An historical and descriptive sketch of Birmingham 1830 Beilby Knott & Beilby

[mikejee]

"An historical and descriptive sketch of Birmingham; with some account of its environs, and forty-four views of the principal public buildings (1830)" is an early description with some unusual, if not very high quality engravings and is available at :
https://www.archive.org/details/historicaldescri00birmuoft
mike

 

[Wendy]

Wonderful thanks Mike!

 

[lencops]

mikejee, Great posting, i shall enjoy reading the book, its a long way from home. Len.

 

[Michael_Ingram]

Thank you very much mikejee. A really useful book. And its downloadable and out of copyright. The engravings aren't that bad but a little small for reproduction.