Verlag: London: Printed for John White; by John Nichols and Son -18, 1804
Anbieter: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, LINCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
First edition, 3 vols., folio, [4], v-xiv, [1], ii-cviii, [22], 7-714; [2], iii-xvi, 860; [2], iii-viii, 702, [1] ii-ccxxxpp., 97 engraved plates, 2 large folding maps, 13 facsimile leaves, 13 folding pedigrees, some light staining to frontis and title to vol. II with repairs, some occasional scattered foxing, several plate lightly offset, cont. full Russia leather, marbled boards, spines gilt tooled extra, slight stain to head of vol. I, a couple of short cracks to joints, lightly rubbed, a.e.g. a handsome set. Provenance: Signature of "William Hardman, Norbiton Hall, 1867" to title-page on vol. I; Bookplate of James S. Burgett to front paste-down. Upcott III, pp. 1209-1216.
Verlag: London -1814, 1803
Anbieter: Charles Russell, ABA, ILAB, est 1978, Cirencester, Vereinigtes Königreich
3 volumes folio 19x13 inches. BOUND IN A FINE CONTEMPORARY FULL RUSSIA LEATHER BINDING with heavily gilt spines and gilt edges. Collated complete with 97 plates- plans, maps and views and 13 separate pedigrees as called for in the bibliography Upcott. Some internal browning and a tiny crack to the lower corner of the upper board of volume two but - A MAGNIFICENT SHELF PIECE and a standard topographical work. Russia leather is cowhide tanned by a special process, giving a rich smooth effect and impregnated with birch-bark oil. It was introduced from Muscovy before 1700 and was popular with English bookbinders between 1780 and 1830.