Descrizione

Sm. 4to., First and Sole Edition, with a lithographed frontispiece, 4 lithographed plates and and an engraved plan, lengthy nineteenth century inscription on front free endpaper; original brown grained cloth, boards with frame border enclosing an elaborate decorative frame all in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt and blocked in blind, uncut and partially unopened, yellow endpapers, short split in upper joint at head of backstrip with very minor loss (not affecting lettering), covers unevenly faded else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. With the list of subscribers at rear, the separately printed errata slip mounted on first page of text and the binder's ticket of Bone & Son on rear paste-down. The inscription on front endpaper describes the author as a close friend of the writer's mother's family and provides an account of his intended and actual marriages, the former to the writer's mother's sister and the latter to a daughter of the Bishop of Manchester. There is also on this page a pencilled signature of '**** Barratt' who may well be related to one of the two Barratts named in the list of subscribers. Extremely scarce. Not recorded by Anderson.