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Identification note: catalogue card has "An early issue before the printing of the dedication to Edmund Wilkins beneath the picture, and before the insertion of the plate number. Published as plate 22 in Hearne and Byrne's Antiquities of Great Britain, 2 vols, 1786-1807." on the back

Summary: copper engraving, Malmsbury Abbey, Drawn by T Hearne, Etch'd by S Middiman finish'd by W Byrne, London publish'd as ye act directs Jan 31. 1780 by T Hearne and W Byrne