Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain. Vol. II part I, containing Cambridgeshire

by Daniel Lysons, and Samuel

$195 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. Topography EX LIBRIS WILLIAM WADE PORTEOUS. Quarto 31 x 24cm , pp. 2 ; 296; xxii; 2 . With twenty six copper engraved plates, including a hand-coloured county map and one further hand-coloured plate. Blue ink ownership inscriptions of Mr. Wade Porteous, a notable book collector and descendant of the Abolitionist Bishop Beilby Porteus, to front pastedown and title page. Neatly rebacked using the original

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