Tour of the Grand Junction, : illustrated with a series of engravings; with an historical and topographical description of those parts of the counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire through which the canal passes. / By J. Hassell.
John Hassell (1767-1825)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085420
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 147, [5] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil number "898" on rear free endpaper. Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript catalogue slip. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Nineteenth-century manuscript inscription on front free endpaper verso: "Mrs. Wackerbarth"[?]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full crimson morocco; double gilt fillet and gilt and blind rolls to form a border; spine gilt, lettered direct 'Hassell's Grand Junction'; recessed cords; gilt-rolled corners of board edges; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
John Hassell (1767-1825), author