The beauties of England and Wales; or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each county. Embellished with engravings. / By John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley.
John Bigland (1750-1832)
Category
Books
Date
1801 - 1815
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3054291
Summary
Bibliographic description
17 v. in 25, plates : ill. ; 8vo. Imperfect: wanting vol. 2, all after p. 310 (Cornwall); vol. 3, all before p. 291 (Cumberland; Isle of Man); vol. 5, all after p. 496 (Gloucester); vol. 9, all before p. 313 (Lancashire); vol. 10iii, all after p. 402, vol. 10iii cont., all before p. 369, and vol. 10iv (Middlesex); vol. 12i, all before p. 3; vol. 12ii, part (Oxfordshire); vol. 13i, all before p. 339 (Shropshire); vol. 14 (Suffolk; Surrey; Sussex); vol. 15, part (Westmoreland); vols. 17i-ii (North and South Wales). Extra-illustrated set. Uniformly bound and shelved with Britton's "The beauties of Wiltshire", vol. 1 (London, 1801). Manuscript index to the Isle of Wight section in a nineteenth-century hand bound in at end of vol. 6. Engraved title page from vol. 8 bound in at front of vol. 7-8, pp. [405]-752 (Kent); engraved title page from vol. 7 bound in at front of v. 8, pp. 753-1086 (Kent). Occasional annotations in some vols. Provenance: Nineteenth-century shared book label of John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols, and John Gough Nichols in some vols. [i.e. belonged to John Nichols (1745-1826), and his son and grandson John Bowyer Nichols (1779-1863) and John Gough Nichols (1806-73)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Broughton (1896-1966)] in all vols. Binding: Twentieth-century half leather binding; marbled paper sides; rebacked in calf, with new calf corners; gilt spine title ‘Beauties of England. … Extra illustrated’; five raised bands.
Makers and roles
John Bigland (1750-1832), author Edward Wedlake Brayley (1773 - 1854), author James Norris Brewer (fl.1799-1829), author John Britton (Kington St Michael 1771 – London 1857), author Evans, J. active 1812. (John), author The Reverend John Hodgson, MRSL (1779-1845), author Francis C. Laird, author Joseph Nightingale (1775-1824), author