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GORTON, John & G. N. WRIGHT. A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland, London: Chapman and Hall, 1833. 3 volumes, 8° (204 x 125mm). 54 folding hand-coloured engraved maps by Sidney Hall (one map severed along fold, some others with tears and repairs, first title repaired, vol. III lacking half-title and title and with early quires in facsimile, final leaves of the same vol. soiled and repaired with slight loss). Modern half morocco; sold not subject to return.
SHEPHERD, Thomas Hosmer (illustrator, fl. 1817-1840) & James ELMES (1782-1862). Metropolitan Improvements: or, London in the Nineteenth Century, London: Jones, 1827. 4° (263 x 201mm), engraved frontispiece and 84 plates after Shepherd, one map. (Plates spotted.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked, new endpapers).
With 9 other volumes, including 6 works in 7 volumes of Walter Besant's Survey of London series. (13)
SHEPHERD, Thomas Hosmer (illustrator, fl. 1817-1840) & James ELMES (1782-1862). Metropolitan Improvements: or, London in the Nineteenth Century, London: Jones, 1827. 4° (263 x 201mm), engraved frontispiece and 84 plates after Shepherd, one map. (Plates spotted.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked, new endpapers).
With 9 other volumes, including 6 works in 7 volumes of Walter Besant's Survey of London series. (13)
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