The history of the ancient and present state of the navigation of the port of King's-Lyn, and of Cambridge, : and the rest of the trading-towns in those parts: and of the navigable rivers that have their course through the Great Level of the Fens, called Bedford Level. Also the history of the ancient and present state of draining in that level, in the province of marshland, and the hundreds and parts adjacent. From authentick records, and ancient manuscripts; and from observations and surveys carefully made upon the spot these three years last past. / With the method proposed for draining the said fens, and amending the harbour of Lyn: by Col. John Armstrong, Chief Engineer of England. Illustrated with maps.
Thomas Badeslade (fl.1712 - 1742)
Category
Books
Date
1766
Materials
Book, paper.
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3013368
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 148 p., [7] leaves of plates (4 folded) : maps ; fol. Imperfect: lacking one prelim. leaf. Pencil price "4/4/-" and bookseller's code "a//uw/" on front pastedown. Pencil "5/43" on rear pastedown. Occasional pencil text marking. Provenance: Eighteenth-century manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "Rob Martin Esqre. Ely". Pencil inscriptions on front free endpaper and title page: "Charles Bidwell 1887". Nineteenth-century printed booklabel: 'Charles Bidwell, Ely'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn onto six raised bands; red morocco spine label, gilt lettered: 'Bades==lade on the Fens'; gilt rolled board edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Badeslade (fl.1712 - 1742), author Colonel John Armstrong (1674-1742), author