Picturesque rides and walks, : with excursions by water, thirty miles round the British metropolis : illustrated in a series of engravings, coloured after nature, with an historical and topographical description of the country within the compass of that circle. / By J. Hassell.
John Hassell (1767-1825)
Category
Books
Date
1817 - 1818
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101108
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([iii]-viii, 249, [11]; [2], 272, [12] p.), [120] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 8vo. Large paper copy. Bookseller's pencil notes on front pastedown in vol. 1: "2 vols / l/sm/-" and "Large Paper". Pencil checkmarks against list of plates, headed "Directions for placing the cuts", in both vols.; pencil correction to list in vol. 1. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter cream paper, marbled paper over boards; printed paper title labels on spines. Original boards.
Makers and roles
John Hassell (1767-1825), author