Magna Britannia; : being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain. / By the Rev. Daniel Lysons, ... and Samuel Lysons, Esq., ...
Daniel Lysons (1762-1834)
Category
Books
Date
1810
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3054019.4.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2, pt. 1, plates (some folded, some col.) : ill., maps ; 4to. Pencil notes on p.70 in the 3rd Earl’s hand [i.e. Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (1757-1834)]. Ephemera: loosely inserted in front: Bye-laws with respect to waggons ... (Southampton ,1879?). Provenance: armorial bookplate (after 1754): Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754. Also used in books acquired by his successors]. Binding: nineteenth-century sprinkled, polished over boards on five recessed cords, gilt spine tooling, tan spine labels, gilt rope tool around edges of covers, gilt tool on board edges, olive-green sprinkled edges. Rebacked; the original spine has been glued to a slip of paper left inside the front cover.
Makers and roles
Daniel Lysons (1762-1834), author Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), author