Shelfmark
Cl.3.12 - Cl.3.15 [Copy 1]
Additional shelfmark
Gi.4.07 - Gi.4.10 [Copy 2]
Author
Title
The environs of London: being an historical account of the towns, villages, and hamlets, within twelve miles of that capital: interspersed with biographical anecdotes. By the Rev. Daniel Lysons, A.M. F.A.S. Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Earl of Orford..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell in the Strand, MDCCXCII - MDCCCXVI [1792 - 1796]
Physical description
4 v., plates : ill, tables, maps ; 28 cm. (4to)
Note
The titlepages are engraved.
Note
The first volume is dated 1792, the second and third 1795, and the fourth 1796.
Note
The imprint to vols. 2-4 read: printed for T. Cadell, jun., and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell).
Formatted contents note
Contents: Vol. 1: "Volume the first. County of Surrey." Vol. 2: "Volume the second. County of Middlesex." Vol. 3: "Volume the third. County of Middlesex." Vol. 4: "Volume the fourth. Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent."
Citation/references note
ESTC, T144193
Provenance
[Copy 1] Bookplate of Eton College. Bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983; armorial bookplate of John Eustace Grubbe, undated; another armorial bookplate half-hidden below the last, with initials GS and a lion's paw (on v.1 only); all on the front pastedown.
Binding
[Copy 1] 18th century gold-tooled calf.
Binding
[Copy 2] 18th-century morocco over pasteboards bound by L. Staggemeier & Welcher (N°11 Villiers St York Build. London). Covers decorated with gilt fillets and roll to form a border; gilt rolls on board edges and turn-ins. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt and blind rolls we as well as gilt titling ("Lysons's enviros of London"; "vol. [I./II./III./IV.]"; "London"). Textblock trimmed and marbled. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock; binder's ticket on front flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Former ECL shelfmarks: Gi.3.05-Gi.3.08.
Subject
Suburbs England London.
Subject
England, South East History Early works to 1800.
Subject
England, South East Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Subject
London (England) Suburbs and environs Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Subject
London (England) Suburbs and environs History Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Cadell, Thomas, 1773 - 1836 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Davies, William, ? - 1820 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Strahan, Andrew, ? - -1831 printer.
Added entry--name
Storer, Anthony Morris, 1746 - 1799 former owner.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Grubbe, John Eustace former owner.
Added entry--name
Staggemeier & Welcher binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B14406