Author: W. G. Fearnside
Title: The Thames & Medway: A Series of Eighty Splendid Engravings, Displaying the Most Picturesque Waterside Scenery of Ten Counties from Drawings by Tombleson with Interesting Historical Descriptions
Description: London, Thomas Holmes, c1834. Leather. A beautifully illustrated section of this work following the Thames through ten counties. Incomplete text. Dated from Trinity College Library. Displaying the most picturesque waterside scenery of ten counties with interesting historical descriptions. Written by William Gray Fearnside. Illustrated by William Tombleson, an English topographical artist and architect, illustrator, engraver, writer and printmaker. Rebound in half read morocco with green cloth boards. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. The odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with light age toning to the first and last few pages. This text is bound with frontispiece, followed by pages 2 to 68, with sixty-four plates. The original work would appear iv, 84pp. with eighty plates. Good . Ill.: Tombleson. Good .

Keywords: Thames Medway Fearnside Medway Tombleson


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