Shelfmark
Ib2.2.34 - Ib2.2.35 - Ib2.2.36 - Ib2.2.37
Author
Title
The new British traveller; or, Modern panorama of England and Wales; exhibiting, at one comprehensive view, an ample, accurate, and popular account, historical, topographical, and statistical, of this most important portion of the British empire descriptive of its several counties, cities, towns, and other subdivisions; their situation, extent, climate, soil, and productions, natural and artificial: improvement and present state of the arts, sciences, manufactures, agriculture, commerce, population, and society. Forming a complete survey of South britain; comprising authentic information on every subject of a local or general nature and interspersed with biographical particulars of eminent and remarkable persons. By James Dugdale.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : printed and published by J. Robins and Co. Albion press, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row., [1819].
Physical description
4 v. : ill., maps ; 27 cm. (4to)
Note
Paging irregular: v. 3: p. 365-420 numbered 565-620.
Note
Maps engraved by S. Neele.
Note
Longitude measured from either Greenwich or London meridian.
Note
Engraved frontispiece in v.1 shows Britannia with a lion, and ships in the background.
Note
Each volume has added title page, engraved, with imprint: London, J. Robins & Co., 1819. T.-p. of v.2 imprint: London, J. and J. Cundee [n. d.]. T.-p. of v. 4: London, J. Robins and co., [n. d.].
Citation/references note
Chubb, CCCLXIII
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
Eton College Library ink stamp on engraved title page verso.
Binding
19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
Subject
Wales Description and travel.
Subject
England Description and travel.
Subject
Great Britain Description and travel.
Added entry--name
Neele, Samuel John, 1758 - 1824 engraver.
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
J. Robins and Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B34933