Author: LEICESTERSHIRE. THROSBY (John)
Title: Select Views in Leicestershire, from Original Drawings: Containing Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, Town Views and Ruins, Accompanied with Descriptive and Historical Relations by J. Throsby.
Description: Leicester: J. Throsby, 1789. First edition, 2 vols., 4to (267 x 200 mm), [8], viii, 353, [1]; 536pp., with list of subscribers, engraved frontis., portrait of the author, engraved title to first volume, letterpress title to second, folding map, folding pedigree, 78 plates and 7 text illustrs., some occasional light foxing, contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked, spine tooled in gilt, morocco labels gilt lettered, endpapers renewed. Volume one concentrates on the seats of the nobility and gentry; The second supplementary volume is devoted to excursions in the county to the villages and other places of note. Provenance: From the library of Josceline Grove, with bookplate and their typed catalogue description pasted to front endpapers. Holmes, p.10; Cooper I, 96.

Keywords: COUNTRY HOUSE LEICESTERSHIRE ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY