An historical account of the Great Level of the Fens, called Bedford Level, : and other fens, marshes and low-lands in this kingdom, and other places; ... / by the late W. Elstobb, engineer.
William Elstobb (d.c.1790)
Category
Books
Date
1793
Materials
Place of origin
King's Lynn
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3018653
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, [12], 276, 4 p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map ; 8vo. Large paper copy? Pencil price, number and code on front pastedown: "21/-", "485" and "cb". Provenance: Subscriber's copy?: manuscript inscription on third front free endpaper: "Mr James Long's Book. 1790 [sic]" ['Mr James Long, Upwell, l.p.' is in list of subscribers]. Manuscript inscription on third front free endpaper in eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century hand (trimmed in binding): "Chas. Laughton". Manuscript inscription in nineteenth-century hand on front pastedown: "James Head". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half straight-grained dark blue morocco, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto three recessed cords; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Elstobb's history of Bedford Level'; red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
William Elstobb (d.c.1790), author