A Description of the Principal Picturesque Beauties, Antiquities, and Geological Phenomena Of The Isle of Wight

PUBLISHER
Printed by William Bulmer, for Payne and Foss, London.

BINDING
Leather bound with gilt lettering and decoration. Banded spine and tooled borders. Gilt block edges. Marbled endpapers.

BOOK CONDITION
Remains in good condition for age, boards are have general wear, especially to spine. Binding secure, and has previously been repaired with riband over the hinges. Gilt is still bright on front cover and block edges. Some foxing and browning to outer leaves, images are a little affected although printed pages largely clear. 

DUST JACKET
No.

EDITION
1816.

DESCRIPTION
A handsome historical volume of Isle of Wight History. With additional geological observations by Thomas Webster which include the coast of Dorset. Illustrated with fifty maps and engravings on plates by W. and G. Cooke, taken from drawings by the authors. These are grouped together at the end of the volume. A few are coloured. Three fold out maps, all intact, with one showing coloured geological strata. 238 pp, plus 27 pages of explanations of the plates, and the plates themselves. Large Folio volume 27 x 35cm.

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