The Rivers, Mountains, and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire with Essays on the Climate, Scenery, and Ancient Inhabitants of the County
PHILLIPS FRS, John
EARLY ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION
Published: John Murray, 1853
Stock code: 19651
Price: £136.00
8vo., First Edition, with lithographed frontispiece map and 35 lithographed engraved plate (one finely coloured by hand), some mild age-staining to plates; original coarse-grained green cloth, sides with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked in cloth to style, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy.
With the errata slip (often missing) tipped-in at p.291 and 16pp publisher's catalogue (dated November 1862) bound in at end. The plates are by Bevan after sketches by the author, and engraved by Monkhouse of York. The work includes topographical and personal indexes. This work is often described wrongly as possessing 35 plates, for the plates themselves are numbered 1-35. The true complement is 36 (as called for on title and list of plates) for plate 27 is present in two forms. 'This work, professedly on geology, contains much antiquarian and topographical information. The learned Professor, from his position in the Geological Survey undertaken by the Government, was personally enabled to collect his information from every part of the County' (Boyne). A second edition, published in 1855, adds a folding diagram. SCARCE. Anderson, p.311; Boyne, XVI.