Author: COXE, WILLIAM
Title: An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire; Illustrated with Views By Sir R.C. Hoare, Bart. A New Map of the County, and Other Engravings
Description: London, For Cadell and Davies, 1801. Hard Cover . Two parts in one, quarto, diced calf, gilt-decorated spine with raised bands, borders of three-line gilt rules and scroll decorations in blind, marbled endpapers, [11] ii-vi [5] pp.2-208 [12] pp.209-433 [11] all edges gilt; folding map fronts. one leaf at appendix also numbered 433. 2 Maps (one folding, with a small tear and no loss; very good order), 54pp. plates, 24 plans and ground plans, including one folding, 11 portraits (including 3 monumental effigies), 2 facsimilies (one folding), genealogies, further engraved view tailpieces. Front board detached, held by neat, heavy-duty linen hinge; rebacked (not recent) retaining original; spine and extremities chipped and rubbed, minor soiling at boards. Text fairly heavily foxed throughout, plates much less affected, and then chiefly marginal (only two particularly bad, one of those around the image only), images on the whole quite sharp; a few small marginal tears, with just a little loss at one leaf. Text block sound and square.

Keywords: Antiquarian Plate Books Wales Welsh Border Counties England Nineteenth Century


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