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ATKYNS, Sir Robert (1647-1711). The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire. London: W. Bowyer for Robert Gosling, 1712. 2° (398 x 255mm). Engraved portrait of Atkyns by M. vander Gucht, 8 engraved armorial plates, a double-page engraved map of Gloucestershire, and 64 double-page views by Johannes Kip. (Portrait trimmed with some loss to the inside edge and laid down, title with small marginal repair, a few other tears and repairs, some spotting and soiling, one plate bound out-of-sequence, without final blank.) 18th-century dark brown calf, the sides with a gilt border of floral sprays, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (rebacked in contrasting calf preserving an early green morocco label, boards scuffed and edges rubbed). Provenance: Josiah Spode (1755-1827, potter and merchant; bookplate, some marginalia, perhaps related) -- T.P. Rogers (signature on endpaper, dated Friezewood Ridgeway Glos. 1944).
FIRST EDITION. Josiah Spode's copy, 'perhaps the most successful bone china manufacturer of the early nineteenth century' (ODNB). Complete with all of Kip's fine views of the noble seats of Gloucestershire. Upcott I, p.246.
FIRST EDITION. Josiah Spode's copy, 'perhaps the most successful bone china manufacturer of the early nineteenth century' (ODNB). Complete with all of Kip's fine views of the noble seats of Gloucestershire. Upcott I, p.246.