[DEFOE, Daniel, 1661?-1731.] - A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies. Giving a particular and diverting account of whatever is curious and worth observation, viz. I.A description of the principal cities and towns, their situation, magnitude, government, and commerce. II. The customs, manners, speech, as also the exercises, diversions, and employment of the people. III. The produce and improvement of the lands, the trade, and manufactures. IV. The sea ports and fortifications, the course of rivers, and the inland navigation. V. The publick edifices, seats, and palaces of the nobility and gentry. With useful observations upon the whole. Particularly fitted for the reading of such as desire to travel over the island. By a Gentleman.London: printed, and sold by G. Strahan, in Cornhill S. Chapman, at the Angel in Pall-Mall. W. Mears, at the Lamb without Temple-Bar. R. Francklin, under Tom's Coffee-house, Covent-Garden. S. Chapman, at the Angel in Pall-Mall. R. Stagg, in Westminster-Hall, and J. Graves, in St. James's-Street, 1724 1st edition. 19cm. viii, 144, 121[1], 127[1]pp, xvi pp index, multi-folding plate, head and tail pieces, decorated capitals. Contemporary full calf gilt, raised bands, sprinkled leaf edges. Extremes rubbed with wear; brown 'tide mark' to lower margins of first section; contemporary MS. notes and numbers to head of front free endpaper recto. Vol. 1 in three parts, each with separate pagination and register. Complete in itself (covering the South of England) and with the Siege of Colchester map present. Moore 459. GBP 139.20 [Appr.: EURO 160.5 US$ 188.27 | JP¥ 27699] Book number 46665is offered by:
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