ANTIQUITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN, A SERIES OF ILLUSTRATIONS. by HEARNE,…

ANTIQUITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN, A SERIES OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

London: T. Hearne and T. Byrne, 1786. Oblong 4to., backed in green cloth, with brown cloth strip to inner margins of boards, onto which is laid down a green textured paper with botanical design, with publisher’s gilt-lettered black paper label to front board, 60 engraved plates including pictorial title, being a compilation of plates from the 1786 and 1807 editions: the 1786 edition comprised 52 plates, of which 30 are included here, with a further 29 from the 1807 edition, plus pictorial title, plates drawn by T. Hearne and engraved by W. Byrne (et al); light foxing (pale, and largely but not exclusively to margins of plates), otherwise internally fairly crisp and very good, with rubbing to paper covering of boards and loss along lower margin of label, wear to extremities, circular mark to front board, a very good copy.

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