LONDON - [David HENRY (1710-92)]. An Historical Account of the Curiosities of London and Westminster, in Three Parts, London, 1759-61, 12mo, contemporary calf. With 9 works of related interest in 10 vols. (11)

LONDON - [David HENRY (1710-92)].  An Historical Account of the Curiosities of London and Westminster, in Three Parts. Part I. Contains a full Description of the Tower of London ... Part II. Contains the History of Westminster-Abbey ... Part III. Treats of the Old Cathedral of St Paul's and the New. London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1760 [second part dated 1761; third part dated 1759]. 3 parts in one volume, 12mo (165 x 100mm). Woodcut ornaments, tables (some light browning and spotting). Contemporary speckled calf gilt (joints splitting, rubbed). Provenance: Sir John Cope, Bart. (armorial bookplate). [?]FIRST EDITION. Cf. Roscoe A219. With 9 works of related interest in 10 vols., namely Thomas Lane's The Student's Guide through Lincoln's Inn ... The Third Edition (London, 1814, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, 2 facsimiles, one folding, original cloth-backed boards, the title inscribed "from the Author"), John James Park's The Topography and Natural History of Hampstead ... Republished with Additions and Corrections (London, 1818, large 8vo, folding engraved map of Hampstead, plates, 19th-century half morocco), William Robinson's The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham High Cross ("Middlesex", Printed for the Author, 1818, large 8vo, large folding hand-coloured engraved map, plates, modern half morocco gilt), Thomas Cromwell's Walks through Islington (London, 1835, 8vo, plates, contemporary green calf gilt, FIRST EDITION), William Edward Trotter's Select Illustrated Topography of Thirty Miles round London (London, 1839, large 8vo, plates, FINE original cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, FIRST EDITION), John Thomas Smith's The Cries of London: Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times (London, 1839, 4to, 30 etched plates, 19th-century black half calf gilt, FIRST EDITION), London Interiors: a Grand National Exhibition (London, 1841-44, 2 vols., 4to, engraved plates, attractively bound in contemporary black half calf gilt, FIRST EDITION), The Comic Almanack ... Second Series, 1844-1853 (London, [n.d.], wood-engraved plates and illustrations by George Cruikshank and others, a few folding, attractively bound by Rivière in full red calf gilt) and Thomas Crofton Croker's A Walk from London to Fulham (London, William Tegg, 1860, 8vo, illustrations, contemporary half morocco, FIRST EDITION). The lot sold not subject to return. (11)