1863 A Hand-Book to the Topography and Family History of England and Wales: Being a Descriptive Account of Twenty Thousand Most Curious and Rare Books, Old Tracts, Ancient Manuscripts, Engravings, and Privately Printed Family Papers, Relating to the History of Almost Every Landed Estate and Old English Family in the Country, Interspersed With Nearly Two Thousand Original Anecdotes, Topographical and Antiquarian Notes

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of John Camden Hotten's brilliantly detail handbook, the most laborious and yet least known of his works. 

An extensive bibliography of Hotten's works on English and Welsh topography, detailing in total twenty thousand curious and rare books.

John Camden Hotten was a bibliophile and publisher, best remembered for his clandestine publishing of erotic and pornographic works.

Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.