Magna Britannia; : being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain. / By the Rev. Daniel Lysons, ... and Samuel Lysons, Esq., ...
Daniel Lysons (1762-1834)
Category
Books
Date
1808
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3247670
Summary
Bibliographic description
6 v., plates (some folded, some col.) : ill., maps ; 4to. Imperfect: vol. 2, pt. 1 (Cambridgeshire) only. Wanting plates XX and XXVIII. Plate V bound facing p. 49; plate XXXIII bound facing p. 186. Extra-illustrated. Pencil checkmarks against list of plates. Pencil numbers on front free endpaper verso: "16/" and "9e". Ephemera: scrap of paper used as a marker at p. 19. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, red cloth over boards; blind tooling on boards; gilt and blind tooling on spine; recessed cords; five raised bands; red spine label: 'Magna Britannia.'; black spine label: 'Cambridgeshire.'; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Daniel Lysons (1762-1834), author Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), author