Author: THROSBY JOHN
Title: Select Views in Leicestershire from Original Drawings: Containing Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, Townviews [ with The Supplementary Volume to the Leicestershire Views: Containing A series of Excursions in the Year 1790 ]
Description: Published by J. Throsby. 1789. Full Calf, Quarto. Select Views in Leicestershire from Original Drawings: Containing Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, Townviews and Ruins Accompanied with Descriptive and Historical Relations. Second volume. The Supplementary Volume to the Leicestershire Views: Containing A series of Excursions in the Year 1790, to the Villages and Places of Note in the County. To which are added, in notes, The most valuable Parts of Burton, Nichols, and other antecedent Writers on Leicestershire. Complete in 2 volumes. 27.5x21.5.cm. Collation, viii,353pp, 1pp errata, 536pp, 76 plates, 1 folding map. Bound in full calf. At some time both volumes have been rebacked, retaining the original tree calf boards, raised bands, ornate gilt tooling. Calf lightly rubbed, some very minor abrasion wear. Both bindings in very good clean firm condition. Internally, pages and plates in good clean condition. A very nice set, in attractive bindings. Very Good.

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