Topography. Lewis (Samuel), A Topographical Dictionary of [G...

Hammer

£170

Topography. Lewis (Samuel), A Topographical Dictionary of [Great Britain], bound as a thirteen volume set, large paper copies, comprising England, four volume set, with supplementary atlas folio, first edition, London: Published by S. Lewis and Co., 1831, half-titles, list of subscribers, double-column, atlas volume: folding England & Wales map and folding London plan defective, 43 county maps, mostly full-page, folding Yorkshire defective; Wales, two volume set, second edition, 1838, double-column, uncollated engraved county maps bound in; Ireland, two volume set, with supplementary atlas folio, first edition, 1839, list of subscribers, double-column, the atlas: 2 engraved leaves, folding map of the kingdom, and 31 full-page county maps; [&] Scotland, two volume set, with supplementary atlas folio, first edition, 1846, double-column, the atlas: 2 letterpress leaves, large format map of the kingdom over 6 folding linen-backed sheets, delineated with contemporary hand-colouring, the set uniformly bound in green calf gilt over green papered boards, the text volumes with marbled edges, all volumes with conforming marbled endpapers, few lettered labels remaining, those that are being fragmentary, rubbed and bumped in places, but a respectable set, 4to (31.5 x 25.5cm), (13)