Author: HUTCHINSON, WILLIAM 1732-1801.
Title: An Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland August 1773.
Description: 1774, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, printed for J Wilkie and W. Goldsmith, 1774. Published anonymously. 8vo, [ii], 193p. Vignette of Bowes castle on title. Signed 'Isabell' on last page. Inscr. Minor marking, corners sl worn, VG in black quarter calf, gilt title and raised bands, marbled boards. The true first edition, an enlarged edition followed in 1776. Bicknell 6 -' William Hutchinson F.S.A. of Barnard Castle, lawyer, topographer, antiquary and historian, wrote county histories of Durham 1785 and Cumberland 1794. The book 'includes a generous amount of picturesque description and lively accounts of unusual incidents'. Very Good.

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