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 - 1822
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3054024
Summary
Bibliographic description
6 v., plates (some folded, some col.) : ill., maps ; 4to. 6 v. in 10. Large paper copy. Extra-illustrated. Vol. 1 is 1813 reissue. "List of plates" from Fisher's "Collections historical, genealogical and topographical for Bedfordshire" (London, 1836) is bound in vol. 1, pt. 1 (Bedfordshire) after p. xii (includes page references to this vol.); pencil checkmarks (incomplete) against the list; at the head of the page is a pencil note: "to Fisher's Work". Pencil checkmarks against lists of plates which are present in vol. 1, pt. 1, vol. 2, pts. 1-2, vols. 3-5 and vol. 6, pt. 1. Pencil note on vol. 1, pt. 1 title page verso: "2/-/- 10 Vols". Pencil page references on verso of final printed leaf bound in vol. 1, pt. 3. Pencil calculation at foot of list of plates in vol. 2, pt. 1. Pencil marginal annotation in vol. 5, p. 232, dated "Jany 1863". Ephemera: loosely inserted in vol. 1, pt. 3: cuttings from 'The Times', October 1893, on Burnham Beeches. Provenance: 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: Twentieth-century half dark green calf, beige cloth over boards; five raised bands; red spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Magna Britannia / Lysons' and '1.I[-6.II] / Bedfordshire[-Devonshire]'; top edges gilt.
Makers and roles
Daniel Lysons (1762-1834), author Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), author