Estimate: | £500 - £800 |
Hammer price: | £400 |
LONDON, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED - John NELSON (dates unknown). The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Islington ... Second Edition. London: "Printed for and Sold by the Author," 1823. Large 8vo (225 x 140mm). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.175 engraved portraits, views etc., some folding. FINELY BOUND by Bayntun in green half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. Provenance: W. A. FOYLE, BEELEIGH ABBEY (red morocco armorial bookplate). With 8 other works in 12 volumes including D. W. Garrow's The History & Antiquities of Croydon (Croydon, 1818, large 8vo, attractively bound in brown half morocco gilt), Thomas Smith's A Topographical and Historical Account of the Parish of St. Mary-Le-Bone (London, 1833, 2 parts in 2 vols., 8vo, FINELY BOUND in dark blue half morocco gilt) and Thomas Coull's The History & Traditions of Islington (London, 1861, large 8vo, later half morocco), all EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. The lot sold not subject to return. (13)