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 - 1808
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3054023
Summary
Bibliographic description
6 v., plates (some folded, some col.) : ill., maps ; 4to. Imperfect: vol. 1 (Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire) and vol. 2, pt. 1 (Cambridgeshire) only. Large paper copy. Extra-illustrated: 26 extra plates in vol. 1 and 9 extra plates in vol. 2, pt. 1. Booksellers' pencil notes on front free endpaper in vol. 1 in various hands: "2/10/0" (erased), "L.P. / fine plates", "Beds Berks / Bucks / with Cambridge / in 2 Vols. / 24/-", "26 extra plates in this Vol. / 9 [ditto] in Camb." and "Lysons 92". Provenance: Twentieth-century booklabel, dated 1909: 'Ex libris. Robert Frederick Green'. 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: Nineteenth-century full calf; gilt fillets and roll and multiple blind rolls to form a panel design; sewn onto three recessed cords; five false bands; blind tooled spines, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Lysons's Magna Britannia' with vol. no. and contents; gilt rolled turn-ins; marbled textblock edges and endpapers.
Makers and roles
Daniel Lysons (1762-1834), author Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), author