1792-1796 The Environs of London, being an Historical Account of the Towns, Villages and Hamlets within twelve miles of that Capital

Description

First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding

The first four volumes only of a work that ultimately extended to six volumes.

Daniel Lyson's important and impressive study 'Environs of London', a brilliantly detailed exploration of London and its surrounding areas as they were at the end of the eighteenth century.

Volume I covers Surrey, Volume II Middlesex, Volume III Middlesex, and Volume IV Hertfordshire, Essex, and Kent.

Volume I illustrated with twenty-seven plates, including a frontispiece, engraved title, engraved dedication leaf, one folding plate, and two folding genealogies. One plate has been hand coloured by a prior owner.

Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title, and fourteen plates.

Volume III illustrated with an engraved title, and eleven plates.

Volume IV illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title, one folding plate, and ten plates.

Collated, complete.

Bookplate of G. D. Solomon to front pastedowns.

Rebacked, with back strips laid down.

A wonderful work from the English antiquarian and topographer.