A topographical survey of the great road from London to Bath and Bristol. : With historical and descriptive accounts of the country, towns, villages, and gentlemen's seats on and adjacent to it; illustrated by perspective views of the most select and picturesque scenery. To which is added a correct map of the country three miles on each side of the road; planned from a scale of one inch to a mile. / By Archibald Robertson.
Archibald Robertson (1745-1813)
Category
Books
Date
1792
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3082392
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : maps ; 8vo. The plates are coloured. Pencil numbers on rear free endpaper of vol. 1: "10379" (crossed through in pencil) and "11342". Ephemera: Manuscript letter from William Faden (the publisher) to Richard Bull relating to the publication of this work is loosely inserted into vol. 1. Clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy pasted onto fonrt free endpaper of vol. 1 (price cut out). Bookseller's ink stamp on front flyleaves: Hatchards, by Piccadilly. Bookseller's pencil notes (in three different hands) on front free endpaper verso of vol. 1; one set of notes has been washed out. Bookseller's code in pencil on rear free endpaper of vol. 1: "ol/i/-". Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Manuscript inscription (vol. 2 only): "P.E. Ireland". Pencil initials on front pastedowns: "RM[?]". Binding: Twentieth-century half blue crushed morocco, blue cloth over boards; five raised bands; gilt panelled spines, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The Bath road Robertson I[-II]'; dark blue ribbon marker in each vol.
Makers and roles
Archibald Robertson (1745-1813), author