Author: Lysons, Rev. Daniel.
Title: THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON: Being an historical account of the towns, villages, and hamlets, within twelve miles of that capital; interspersed with biographical anecdotes. County of Surrey; County of Middlesex; Counties of Herts. Essex & Kent; An Historical Account of Those Parishes in the County of Middlesex, Which are Not Described in the Environs of London.
Description: London: Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell, Jun and W. Davies ... T. Cadell, and W. Davies ... , 1795-1800. Reissue of 1st Edition. 5 vols. 4to. Engraved title pages with vignettes, 2 folding pedigrees, 3 maps, 77 plates including several folding and several hand coloured, folding plan. Some browning, ex.-lib. with bookplates removed from pastedown, markings to verso of title page, hinges cracked though firm, contemporary half calf with cloth boards, some fading, extremities rubbed with some loss to corners, blind ruling with gilt lettered labels to spines with some loss to head and tail, several dents to edges of boards, some fading, minor marking. ¶ Upcott 914 (First Edition); ESTC T200696 ‘The titlepages are engraved. The second, third and fourth volumes are reissues of the 1792-96 edition. The first and fourth volumes are dated 1796, the second and third 1795.’ Volume 1 with an additional plate ‘Painted Glass in a Window of Wimbledon Church’ dated 1810. Volume 6 published 1811 entitled 'Supplement to the first edition of The historical account of the environs of London.’ Daniel Lysons (1762–1834), antiquary. ‘... At this time he began work for his Environs of London (4 vols., 1792–6), a topographical account of the parishes within 12 miles of London. A contemporary recounted that Lysons 'spent seven hours up to his knees in water in the vaults of Stepney Church copying epitaphs' (Fleming, 49) and he extended this industry and meticulousness to all his work. He treats Surrey parishes in the first volume, which includes notable demographic sections compiled from primary sources. This volume was only partly superseded by The History and Antiquities of Surrey of Owen Manning and William Bray (3 vols., 1804–14). The second and third volumes cover Middlesex parishes and are a great advance on previous works. The sections on Essex parishes draw quite heavily on The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex (2 vols., 1762–8) of Philip Morant but their range is greater, covering births and baptisms and agriculture. The work was supplemented by A Historical Account of those Parishes in … Middlesex … not Described in the ‘Environs’ (1800), and in 1811 by a second edition of and a supplement to the Environs. Many of the illustrations were drawn and etched by Lysons and his brother Samuel and the whole represented a very considerable antiquarian achievement ...’

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