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DUGDALE, Thomas : Curiosities of Great Britain. England and Wales Delineated

Tallis & Co., Green Arbour Court, Old Bailey, London, 1835

Quarto (215 x 135 mm. each), three volumes, contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, blind ruled, spine with raised bands with ornate gilt decoration, compartments with ornate blind decoration, gilt calf title and volume numbers, light wear. With 59 early outline coloured steel engraved maps and 36 steel engraved prints, some light foxing, some maps with light print offset, otherwise in good condition.

Thomas Dugdale was an antiquarian and responsible for this, the Curiosities of Great Britain. The work was issued with two distinct sets of maps. The first utilised those maps from the George Cole and John Roper British Atlas of 1810 as here. The second series used a new set of maps engraved by Joshua Archer (1792-1863). The publishers J. & F. Tallis had acquired the Cole and Roper plates and the Dugdale text by c.1835. Provenance: private English collection. Beresiner (1983) pp. 88-90; Carroll (1996) no. 62; Chubb (1927) 465.

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