Select views in Leicestershire, from original drawings: containing seats of the nobility and gentry, town views and ruins, accompanied with descriptive and historical relations [WITH]: The supplementary volume to the Leicestershire views: containing a series of excursions in the year 1790, to the villages and places of note in the county
Leicester: J. Throsby...Sold by W. & J. Walker...London, 1789-1790 [but 1791-1792]. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. [8], viii, 353, [1]; 536; Vol. I engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title page, 60 plates, including one folding chart not called for in the Directions to the Binder; Vol. II folding map frontispiece, 16 plates, including one hand-colored map; early 20th-century half calf over original speckled calf, black and brown spine labels, new endpapers; vol. I upper cover ring-stained, soiling on rear cover; edges rubbed; vol. I frontispiece and title page dampstained as are many of the plates, one plate in Vol. I with early 20th-century ownership rubberstamp on margin, else textblocks very good and sound. Vol. II imprint London: for the author, by J. Nichols, 1790. ESTC N21890 & T112230. Item #45293
Price: $500.00
