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NORRIS, Charles (1779-1858). An Account of Tenby, containing an Historical Sketch of the Place ... and a Description of its Present State ... Second Edition. Pembroke: John Treble, 1829. 8°. Half title, folding hand-coloured map, errata leaf, and 6 folding [uncoloured] aquatint plates by D. Havell after Charles Norris. Original green paper boards, spine label (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Christopher Dobson (pencil inscription on front pastedown). Abbey Scenery 541. The first edition, not recorded in Abbey, was published in 1818. A FINE COPY OF A SCARCE BOOK.
With 3 other topographical books, Henry Rowlands' Mona Antiqua Restaurata. An Archaeological Discourse on the Antiquities ... of the Isle of Anglesey (Dublin, 1723), Charles Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova (Nottingham, 1751) and G. W. Manby's An Historic and Picturesque Guide from Clifton, through the Counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan, and Brecknock (Bristol, 1802). (4)
With 3 other topographical books, Henry Rowlands' Mona Antiqua Restaurata. An Archaeological Discourse on the Antiquities ... of the Isle of Anglesey (Dublin, 1723), Charles Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova (Nottingham, 1751) and G. W. Manby's An Historic and Picturesque Guide from Clifton, through the Counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan, and Brecknock (Bristol, 1802). (4)
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