PATERSON'S ROADS. Being an Entirely Original and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, with Part of the Roads of Scotland. To which are Added Topographical Sketches of the several Cities, Market Towns, and remarkable Villages; and Descriptive Accounts of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, the Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, and other Remarkable Objects throughout the Kingdom: the Whole Remodelled, Augmented, and Improved, by the Addition of Numerous New Roads and New Admeasurements, and Arranged upon a Plan at Once Novel, Clear, and Intelligible, is Deduced from The latest and best Authorities.
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green..... London. 1826, 1826.
EIGHTEENTH EDITION. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.7 inches). Complete with nine folding maps. A couple of pages with minor foxing otherwise a very good, clean copy in a fine early twentieth century binding of half red morocco leather. The spine with wide raised bans. Compartments double ruled and lettered in gilt. Boards with double gilt ruled lines to the leather edges and red cloth. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. A fine binding, curiously, with the names of both Hatchards and Sotherans bookshops stamped to the plain side of the front free endpaper. Armorial bookplate of C. J. Fletcher, Dale Park, on the front pastedown endpaper. Charles John Fletcher (1843–1914) was a British landowner, Deputy Lieutenant, and Justice of the Peace who lived at Dale Park House, an eighteenth century fine country house on a 300 hundred acre estate near Arundel, which he inherited from him father.
Item #11880
Price: £325.00