1801 The Beauties of Wiltshire

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

The scarce first edition of this work.

Volumes I and II only of this work. A third volume was published much later, in 1825.

Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title page to each volume, and with five further plates to volume I, and seven to volume II.

Collated, complete.

A wonderful study of Wiltshire from English antiquary, topographer, author and editor John Britton.

With the former owner's inscription of J Powell of Swindon to a front blank of each volume, and with the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to the front pastedown of volume I.

Robert J. Hayhurst inherited and improved a successful group of retail pharmacies, John Hayhurst & Son, based in Nelson, Lancashire. He was a keen collector of naval history and of eighteenth-century literature in contemporary bindings.