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
1808
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3054023.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2 (Cambridgeshire), plates : ill., map ; 4to. Large paper copy. Extra-illustrated: 9 extra plates. 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 spine, 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