The Beauties of England and Wales: or, Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County; Embellished with Engravings; by J N. Brewer Vol. XII Part II [Oxfordshire County and Rutlandshire County]

London: J. Harris; Longman and Co.; J. Walker; R. Baldwin; Sherwood and Co.; J. and J. Cundee; B. and R. Crosby and Co.; J. Cuthell; J. and J. Richardson; Cadell and Davies; C. and J. Rivington; and G. Cowie and Co., 1813. Hardcover. vii, [1], 543, [23], 156, [4] pages, frontispiece, added engraved series title page, 23 leaves of plates: tables; 22 cm. Red morocco spine with gilt-tooled spine title; dark red pebble-grain cloth over boards. All page edges have red speckling. White endpapers with blue fibers. Unpaginated pages following text contain lists of books, maps, and views relating to the Counties of Oxfordshire and Rutlandshire; and indices. Each section is paginated separately. Ex-library: two small handwritten spine labels; front fixed endpaper bears late 19th-century bookplate of Sage Public Library, West Bay City, Mich.; small circulation pocket on back fixed endpaper. The number "846" is faintly stamped at the foot of the the first page of text. Plates include views of: the tower of Magdalen College, Oxford; the town of Oxford; Christ Chuch Cathedral, Oxford; Clarendon Printing House and the Theatre; St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford; St. Mary's Church, Iffley; and Tynwell Church, Rutlandshire (All Saints' Church in Tinwell), prior to its mid-19th-century restoration. In Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; ex-library, as described above; light foxing on a few plates and adjacent pages; otherwise, clean and solid. Very Good. Item #011879

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