HASSELL, John (1767-1825). Tour of the Grand Junction, Illustrated in a Series of Engravings; with an Historical and Topographical Description of Those Parts of the Counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire, through which the Canal passes. London: for John Hassell, 1819.

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HASSELL, John (1767-1825). Tour of the Grand Junction, Illustrated in a Series of Engravings; with an Historical and Topographical Description of Those Parts of the Counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire, through which the Canal passes. London: for John Hassell, 1819.

8^o (206 x 128 mm). 24 hand-colored aquatint plates (some occasional light spotting). Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco, tooled in blind and gilt. Provenance: Longueville (armorial bookplate); cloth folding case.

FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 30; Tooley 252.

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