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 3082392.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2, plates : maps ; 8vo. The plates are coloured. Bookseller's ink stamp on front flyleaf: Hatchards, by Piccadilly. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Manuscript inscription: "P.E. Ireland". Pencil initials on front pastedown: "RM[?]". Binding: Twentieth-century half blue crushed morocco, blue cloth over boards; five raised bands; gilt panelled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The Bath road Robertson II'; dark blue ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Archibald Robertson (1745-1813), author