Author: Bell, James.
Title: A NEW COMPREHENSIVE GAZETTEER OF ENGLAND AND WALES, Presenting Under Each Article Respectively, the Population of the Towns and Parishes. According to the Census of 1831, and the State of the Elective Franchise, as Fixed by the Provisions of the Reform Bill.
Description: Glasgow: A. Fullarton & Co., 1837. 4 vols. Folding map of England and Wales (with crease tears), [only, lacking 43 folding maps]. Some light browning, marbled e.ps., contemporary half calf with marbled boards, 2 gilt lettered labels [only of 4] to blind and gilt tooled spines, damage and loss to heads of upper joints of vol 1. and 2. ¶ James Bell (1770–1833), Geographer. ODNB ‘... Because he was prevented from travelling by his poor health and limited means, Bell's geographies were necessarily derivative, though they were assiduously researched and competently, if not always scrupulously, put together ...’

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; ENGLAND


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