Author: Lewis, Samuel:
Title: A Topographical Dictionary of England comprising the several Counties, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, and Townships and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey and Man, with Historical Descriptions and Statistical Descriptions […]; A Topographical Dictionary of Wales […]; An Atlas to the Topographical Dictionaries of England and Wales […].
Description: London: S. Lewis and Co., 1844; 1844; 1845. 4to., 7 vols., unpaginated + 57 maps in total: 55 county maps (some folding, all with hand-coloured outlines), 1 general map of England and Wales (hand-coloured outlines), 1 plan of London. Occasional light foxing and spotting. Uniformly bound in brown polished half sheep, marbled boards, edges and endpapers, raised bands, blind tooling and red title labels to spines. Spines sunned and scuffed, a few scrapes and a couple of bands lost, endcaps and corners worn, some joints just starting, endpapers very foxed. Still good, sound copies. Tiny binder's stamp to front pastedown: Proudfoot Binder, 75 George St., Euston. Topographical Dictionary of England […], 4 vols., 5th ed.; Topographical Dictionary of Wales […], 2 vols., 3rd ed.; Atlas to the Topographical Dictionaries of England and Wales […] 1 vol., 1st ed.. A further two volumes on Scotland and two on Ireland followed in 1846. Beresiner, 144; Howgego, 330.

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