A topographical dictionary of England, : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions; illustrated by maps of the different counties and islands; a map of England, shewing the principal towns, roads, railways, navigable rivers, and canals; and a plan of London and its environs; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishoprics, universities, colleges, corporate towns, and boroughs; and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. / By Samuel Lewis. In four volumes.
Samuel Lewis (d.1865)
Category
Books
Date
1831
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069229
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v., plates (some folding) : ill. ; 4to. Some uncut leaves in vol. 1. Manuscript annotation in vol. 1 (p. 490) on the 1831 census figures for Costessey. Manuscript annotation in vol. 4 (p. 587), amending the paragraph about the church at Wymondam. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown in vol. 1: "F.C. Husenbeth / 1831" [i.e. Rev. F.C. Husenbeth (1796-1867) of Cossey Hall, Norfolk]; his name appears in list of subscribers. Manuscript note on front pastedown in vol. 1: "W_ _". Seal bookplate (not in Franks) on front pastedown in all vols.: 'Sir Henry Bedingfeld of Oxburgh Bart' [i.e. Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, 6th Bt. (1800-1862)]. Binding: nineteenth-century full purple cloth; black spine labels (gilt-lettered).
Makers and roles
Samuel Lewis (d.1865)