Author: Mudie, Robert.
Title: HAMPSHIRE: Its Past and Present Condition, and Future Prospects; The Valleys of the Itchen and Test; The Northern, Eastern, and Southern Slopes. and the New Forest; Isle of Wight and Channel Islands;
Description: Winchester: Published for the Proprietor, James Robbins ..., N.d. c.[1838]. 1st Ed. 3 vols. Large 8vo. 4 engraved t.ps., 6 single sheet maps, 131 engraved plates, 3 folding maps. [Vol. 1 without the list of plates]. Some light browning, marbled e.ps., bound by John Wanamaker in early green gilt fillet edged half morocco with cloth boards, extremities sl. rubbed, gilt tooled spines faded and with loss to extremities, t.e.g. ¶ The Channel Islands with seperate engraved title page, pagination and register. Robert Mudie (1777–1842), newspaper editor and author. Dedicated to the people of Hampshire, the work remains the standard county history. The industrious Mudie personally collated the documents and visited the localities. Many of the plates are by G.F. Sargeant.

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