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
1806 - 1822
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3054020.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1 plates . ill.., maps . 4to.. Large paper copy, extra-illustrated. Note on front endpaper: ’Perfect. large paper. With the additional plates & proofs of the Britannica depicta & all the additions & further additions - at page 551 of the Buckinghamshire is added a portrait of John Bigg the Dinton Hermit. 9 vol. complete set’. Boards loose. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: ‘James Comer ford’ [(1806-1881)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full diced morocco, gilt-tooled border, marbled endpapers & edges; gilt-lettered on red & black spine label: ‘Histories of Bedfordshire [etc.]’ & ‘Lysons’ Britannia 1806[-1822]‘
Makers and roles
Daniel Lysons (1762-1834) Samuel Lysons (1763-1819)