[Barker (Matthew Henry)], Walks Round Nottingham by a Wander...

Estimate

£100 - £150

[Barker (Matthew Henry)], Walks Round Nottingham by a Wanderer, first edition, London: Published by Effingham Wilson, 1835, lithograph frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, lithographed plates, in-text wood engravings, late Victorian fine binding of black quarter-morocco gilt over marbled boards by Frank Murray of Nottingham, his ticket, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo; Derbyshire: Ussher (Richard), An Historical Sketch of the Parish of Croxall, first edition, copy no. 95/100, stamped and signed by the publishers, London: Bemrose & Sons, 1881, black-ruled, limitation leaf, half-title, chromolithographed frontispiece, further illustrated with chromolithographs, lithographs and tipped-in platinotypes by Richard Keene of Derby, finely bound in contemporaneous maroon morocco, gilt with Tudor roses within graduating fillets, the lettered spine similarly tooled, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, Murray's Nottingham Book Co. Ltd. ticket to pastedown, 4to; Lincolnshire: two copies of [Holdich (Benjamin)], The History of Crowland Abbey, Digested from the Materials Collected by Mr. Gough [...], first editions, Stamford: Printed and published by J. Drakard, engraved frontispieces, each volume with some marginal paper repairs in places, contemporary quarter-calf and later cloth over papered boards bindings, 8vo in 4s; Potter (Thomas Rossell), et al, The History and Antiquities of Charnwood Forest, with an Appendix on the Geology, Botany and Ornithology of the District, first edition, London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1842, engraved frontispiece and additional title, lithographed plates, in-keeping but later 20th c calf over marbled boards, uncut, 4to, (5)

Provenance: 1st: 1) Greenfield of Kingswinford; their crested bookplate. 1st 2) & 2nd: Frederic Arthur Wadsworth (1871-1943), Nottingham historian and book collector; his armorial bookplate in the first, the second his binding with his onlayed monogram in polychrome morocco as well as his monogrammed bookplate to pastedown.