ROSE, Thomas. Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland Illustrated, from original drawings by Thomas Allom with historical & topographical descriptions, London: Fisher, Son & Co., 1832. 4 (280 x 220mm.), engraved title, 213 engraved plates on 108 sheets (occasional spotting), contemporary brown calf, covers with blind-stamped cartouche in a gilt foliate border, spine gilt (extremities rubbed and cracked), g.e., bookplate of John Chadwick. FIRST EDITION.

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ROSE, Thomas. Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland Illustrated, from original drawings by Thomas Allom with historical & topographical descriptions, London: Fisher, Son & Co., 1832. 4 (280 x 220mm.), engraved title, 213 engraved plates on 108 sheets (occasional spotting), contemporary brown calf, covers with blind-stamped cartouche in a gilt foliate border, spine gilt (extremities rubbed and cracked), g.e., bookplate of John Chadwick. FIRST EDITION.

[WEST, Thomas] A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, London: for W. Richardson and others, 1789. 8, engraved frontispiece by J. Caldwall, engraved folding map (occasional light spotting and mainly marginal browning), contemporary red half morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, green morocco label (lightly rubbed). Fourth edition.

GREEN, William. The Tourist's new guide containing a description of the Lakes, Mountains and Scenery in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, with some account of their bordering towns and villages, Kendall: R. Lough and Co., 1819. 2 volumes, 8, engraved frontispiece, folding map, 21 engraved and aquatint plates (spotting and browning), original stiff wrappers (worn).

With 7 other books mainly on the North of England including E. Lynn Linton's The Lake Country (London, 1864), and Thomas Wilkinson's Tours to the British Mountains, with the descriptive poems of Lowther, and Emont Vale (London, 1824). (11)

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