A Topographical Dictionary of England, And Wales, With Supplementary Atlas Volume. .Comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries and townships, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions; illustrated by maps of the different counties and islands; A Map of England, shewing the principle towns, roads, railways, navigable rivers, and canals; and a plan of London and its environs; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishopricks, universities, colleges, corporate towns and boroughs; and of the seals of the several municiple corporations. In Six Volumes.

LEWIS, SAMUEL:

Edité par London, S. Lewis and Co., 1831

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Hardbacks, Large 4to. Approx 11 x 9 inches. Quarter bound in black calf leather to spines and corners and marbled paper to boards. Marbled page edges and endpapers. With raised banding and gilt floral decorations to spines, and twin red leather spine labels lettered in gilt. In very good condition. Some handling marks and shelfwear to covers, edges and corners rubbed, some rubbing to ends of spines, some bumps and rubbing to board edges. Bookplates to endpapers ?Sir Thomas Fraser Grove, Bart.? Maps do have some mild to moderate foxing and darkening, except Atlas volume which only has some very minor foxing to a couple of plates. Large map on England in vol.1. is torn at centre fold. Pages all clean and tight. Else very good clean and tight copies. Six Volumes. Includes WALES (2 vols in 1.) and ATLAS. Illustrated with 46 B&W engraved maps, 15 of which are fold-out, including a large fold out map of England and Wales (vols 1-4). Wales Volume has 13 B&W engraved maps, and ATLAS has 116 B&W engraved plans of principal Cities & Towns, all with hand colouring. Four volumes complete, plus Supplementary 5th Volume (Atlas), and Topographical Dictionary of Wales, (2 vols bound in 1.) Maps engraved by J & C Walker. N° de réf. du vendeur 88227

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Titre : A Topographical Dictionary of England, And ...

Éditeur : London, S. Lewis and Co., 1831