Creator talk:James Baily

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A genealogy post suggests his dates may have been 1802-1852: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LONDON/2000-01/0948488632

(though that would make him only 16 when engraving for Pyne's Royal Residences in 1818)

The Library of Congress gives his dates as "fl. 1780-1815", which seems curious when it then cites a plate from 1828.

Ash Rare Books credits him as "James Bailey (fl. 1780-1838)" with regard to a 1798 engraving of Saltwood Castle in Sussex. http://www.ashrare.com/hythe_prints.html

The University of Reading cites an engraver called John Bailey, with dates 1750-1819 http://www.reading.ac.uk/merl/online_exhibitions/livestok/index.html This is John Bailey (agriculturist). Russell (1979), Guide to British Topographical Prints gives this as the engraver of aquatints But he was based in the North, at Chillingham in Northumberland.

The Survey of London notes a James Bailey who was resident at 19 Percy Street from 1776–1781, who it says "may have been the engraver". http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=65153