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1825 A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom; Containing Every City, Town, Village, Hamlet, Parish, District, Object, and Place in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the Small Islands Dependent
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Folding Maps, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Uncommon
An uncommon new edition. In a full calf binding with gilt detail, and new endpapers. With a folding map frontispiece, a further six folding maps, and thirty-nine full-page maps. Collated complete. Wales is on one plate, not two as stated in the list of maps, as is common for this edition. A comprehensive topographical dictionary of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the early nineteenth century. Containing every city, town, village, hamlet, parish, and district. Benjamin Pitts Capper was a British gazetteer publisher. His best known work was this topographical dictionary, which was published in over twenty different editions.
Condition
In a full calf binding. Externally, a trifle rubbed. Rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine. Marks to the boards. Crack to the upper rear board. Front hinge is starting but still firm. Light marks to the paste-downs and free endpapers. Internally, binding slightly strained but still firm. Pages lightly age-toned to the edges, otherwise generally bright and clean. Spotting and cockling to the frontispiece map. Loss to the upper title page. Some offsetting and scattered marks to the title page. Scattered spots throughout, heavier to the plates. Occasional offsetting on the pages facing the plates. Scattered handling marks and the odd ink mark. Ink mark to the map of Essex.
Good
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