The Beauties of England and Wales: or, Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County; Embellished with Engravings; by John Britton Vol. XV [Wiltshire 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., 1814. Hardcover. viii, 718, [26] pages, frontispiece, added engraved series title page, and 17 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. Ex-library: remains of handwritten labels on spine; 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 "850" is faintly stamped at the foot of the the first page of text. Unpaginated pages following text contain errata; lists of books, maps, and views relating to the County of Wiltshire; and an index. Plates include views of: Malmsbury Abbey Church; Stanton St. Quintin manor house (demolished in 1856); Salisbury Cathedral; New Park, or Roundway Park, (demolished around 1950); Bradford-on-Avon; Corsham House (Corsham Court); Bowood House (largely demolished in 1956); and St. Sampson's Church at Cricklade. In Good+ Condition: edges are rubbed; sunned along fore-edge of front board; faint dampstain along spine, at lower gutter of frontispiece and added engraved series title page (not impacting images), and at lower gutter from p. 718 through unpaginated pages and final plate (not impacting image); foxing on a few pages of text; ex-library, as described above; clean and solid. Good +. Item #011937

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