Companion to the Wye Tour.

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2nd ed, 1821, VG, 1 portrait plate. In contemporary half calf, marbled boards, corners and edges a little worn and bumped. Relaid spine, gilt tooling and title, blind tooling, edges bumped. Internally, marbled endpapers, frontis, [3], (iv-ix), [1], [1], 2-195 pp, 1 pl (portrait, dated 1818), text leaves watermarked 1820, book label of Harlech Library to fep, and JW Lloyd of Kington to fpd, early ink signature to ffep (Ernest Frederic Gascoigne), some light offsetting & spotting, printed by W Farror, Ross, lib withdrawn label to epd, text block edges marbled. Printed the same year as the first edition. A nice copy! (COPAC. WorldCat). Title continues: Illustrative of the Campaigns of Caractacus; the station Ariconium, &c with other matters never before published. Fosbroke [Fosbrooke], antiquary, publications included An Original History of the City of Gloucester (1819), incorporating some of Bigland's papers; Berkeley Manuscripts (1821), containing extracts from John Smyth's 'Lives of the Berkeleys' and appending biographical anecdotes of Fosbrooke's friend, Edward Jenner; and his largest work, the Encyclopaedia of Antiquities (1825; 2nd edn, 1840), Foreign Topography (1828). He also wrote tourist guides, the most popular being The Wye Tour (1818; 6th edn, 1841). Between 1816 and 1833 he contributed monthly reviews to the Gentleman's Magazine. See ODNB for a full Bio.