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nk nk nk. Hardcover. Title page missing Bound in dark blue/green cloth, 30 plates, 2 folding maps, pages 313 - 808 Good. Owner's name and address on front endpaper. Foxing to many of the paltes but not the maps.

London: London: Printed by Thomas Maiden, Sherburn-Lane, for Vernor, Hood and Sharpe [et al]., 1810. Half leather. Good. First edition thus, octavo; 736, [24]pp. In contemporary half leather over marbled boards (worn, crudely rebacked in old leather with early hand written paper spine label, font hinge broken), occasional spotting and browning, pp375-9 torn with loss of a few words, with extra engraved title page and 27 full page topographical engravings. Good copy of these early well illustrated topographical accounts forming volume 5 of Britton and Brayley's Beauties of England and Wales series.

Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London: c.1805. . With 11 engravings, hand-coloured engraved may of the county by J. Roper, and an engraved plan of Gloucester, pages numbered 497-736, half calf, later spine, and endpapers, crudely lettered leather label on spine, marbled boards, lightly rubbed to edges. Extracted from the 'Beauties of England and Wales'. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include GLOUCESTERSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

London, 1801. Or, Delineations Topographical, Historical and Descriptive of Each County. Embellished with engravings. Vol 1 only. Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire. 13 plates. Light foxing throughout, water-stains towards front and back. Beige endpapers. Rebound in brown cloth with gilt titles. Light wear along the edges. GOOD+. Hardcover. Good+.

London: Printed By Vernor & Hood; Longman & Rees, Cuthell & Martin and Others.... Good+ with no dust jacket. 1801. First Edition. Hardcover. One Volume in the series - 'Beauties of England and Wales'. This series originally published in 25 volumes. This volume 2 forms Volume II - CAMBRIDGESHIRE, CHESHIRE and CORNWALL. The Volume is bound in full leather with 5 raised bands, Gilt titling on 2 labels and gilt decoration to each compartment. Probably contemporary or near contemporary bindings. The spine has some flaws/damage, splitting to the edges of the spine. Some small chipping/repair-work with some tiny loss to the head/tail of the spine, but hinges holding currently (front hinge shaky) despite some splits, and overall is an attractive book. ALL Edges Marbled. The volume has marbled endpapers and 2 former owners labels (marked/torn) to the front pastedown - just the printed names in fancy old type - Bevington Gibbins and, below, his son - Frederick J. Gibbins (… Read More

, Part 1 has 304 pages and 16 plates (inc. frontispiece), Part 2 has pages 305-400 plus 16 page index, 15 plates (inc. frontispiece) also has an illustrated title page and end page vignette, List of Books &c. to the back 8 pages

London: Printed By Vernor & Hood; Longman & Rees, Cuthell & Martin and Others.... Good+ with no dust jacket. 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. One Volume in the series - 'Beauties of England and Wales'. This series originally published in 25 volumes. This volume 3 forms CUMBERLAND, The ISLE of MAN and DERBYSHIRE. The Isle of Man is not part of the title on the spine but is present and consists of 42 pages, 1 Plate and a wood-engraved tail-piece. The Volume is bound in full leather with 5 raised bands, Gilt titling on 2 labels and gilt decoration to each compartment. Probably contemporary or near contemporary bindings. The spine has some flaws/damage, splitting to the edges of the spine. Some small chipping/repair-work with some tiny loss to the head/tail of the spine, but hinges holding despite some splits and overall is an attractive book. ALL Edges Marbled. The volume has marbled endpapers and 2 former owners labels (marked/torn) to the front pastedown - just the printed… Read More