A Description of the Country from thirty to forty Miles round Manchester, 1st edition, for John Stockdale, 1795, engraved frontispiece, additional vignette title, 69 engraved maps and views on 61 sheets, large folding hand-coloured map (80 x 88 cm) and large folding plan of Manchester (110 x 95 cm) to rear, frontispiece and vignette title spotted and browned, marginal spotting to other plates, light offsetting and small hole to folding plan, contemporary inscription ('This is decidedly the finest copy of the work I have ever had ...' signed W. H. Ford) to initial blank, above pencil inscription 'Fanshawe Sale', engraved bookplate of Barron Field (see note), contemporary half russia by C. Ambery of Manchester, rebacked, rubbed, 4to (29.4 x 22.6 cm), together with: Warner (Richard, editor), Collections for the History of Hampshire and the Bishopric of Winchester: including the Isles of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, and Sarke, 5 volumes in 3, 1st edition, for the authour [sic], 1795, volume 1 in 2 sections, 62 engraved plates, some hand-coloured, lacking the 'Plan of the Form of Jersey' as usual ('not to be found in any of the copies' examined by Upcott), spotting and browning, mended tear in plate facing p. 264 volume 1 section 2, engraved bookplate of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (see note), contemporary diced russia, worn, covers detached, 4to, ibid., Hampshire extracted from the Domes-Day Book, 1st edition, Faulder [and others], 1789, lacking half-title, title page spotted and marked, edges untrimmed, 20th-century half cloth, wear to spine, 4to (28.5 x 22 cm), Duthy (John), Sketches of Hampshire, 1st edition, Winchester: Jacob and Johnson, 1839, lithographic map frontispiece, 7 lithographic plates (2 hand-coloured),light spotting, bookplate, front inner hinge tender, edges untrimmed, original cloth, spine faded and rolled, large 8vo, and approximately 10 others, 18th- and 19th-century Hampshire topography, various formats Upcott pp. 462-5 (Aikin), pp. 276-81 (Warner, Collections). Warner's Collections is one of 225 small-paper copies, in addition to 25 copies on large paper. Provenance, Aikin: Barron Field (1786-1846), Australian judge and poet (bookplate); Warner, Collections: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737-1806), British ambassador to China (bookplate). (approximately 15)
A Description of the Country from thirty to forty Miles round Manchester, 1st edition, for John Stockdale, 1795, engraved frontispiece, additional vignette title, 69 engraved maps and views on 61 sheets, large folding hand-coloured map (80 x 88 cm) and large folding plan of Manchester (110 x 95 cm) to rear, frontispiece and vignette title spotted and browned, marginal spotting to other plates, light offsetting and small hole to folding plan, contemporary inscription ('This is decidedly the finest copy of the work I have ever had ...' signed W. H. Ford) to initial blank, above pencil inscription 'Fanshawe Sale', engraved bookplate of Barron Field (see note), contemporary half russia by C. Ambery of Manchester, rebacked, rubbed, 4to (29.4 x 22.6 cm), together with: Warner (Richard, editor), Collections for the History of Hampshire and the Bishopric of Winchester: including the Isles of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, and Sarke, 5 volumes in 3, 1st edition, for the authour [sic], 1795, volume 1 in 2 sections, 62 engraved plates, some hand-coloured, lacking the 'Plan of the Form of Jersey' as usual ('not to be found in any of the copies' examined by Upcott), spotting and browning, mended tear in plate facing p. 264 volume 1 section 2, engraved bookplate of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (see note), contemporary diced russia, worn, covers detached, 4to, ibid., Hampshire extracted from the Domes-Day Book, 1st edition, Faulder [and others], 1789, lacking half-title, title page spotted and marked, edges untrimmed, 20th-century half cloth, wear to spine, 4to (28.5 x 22 cm), Duthy (John), Sketches of Hampshire, 1st edition, Winchester: Jacob and Johnson, 1839, lithographic map frontispiece, 7 lithographic plates (2 hand-coloured),light spotting, bookplate, front inner hinge tender, edges untrimmed, original cloth, spine faded and rolled, large 8vo, and approximately 10 others, 18th- and 19th-century Hampshire topography, various formats Upcott pp. 462-5 (Aikin), pp. 276-81 (Warner, Collections). Warner's Collections is one of 225 small-paper copies, in addition to 25 copies on large paper. Provenance, Aikin: Barron Field (1786-1846), Australian judge and poet (bookplate); Warner, Collections: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737-1806), British ambassador to China (bookplate). (approximately 15)
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