North Wales; Including Its Scenery, Antiquities, Customs,

Additional information

2 vols, Good, 1st eds, 1804, 2 pls, 1 map. In full calf, gilt edge tooling, corners and edges bumped and worn. New spines, raised bands, titles in gilt to calf labels. Internally, bookplate to fpds (Philip B Mason). Vol 1, frontis, [5], (vi-xx), [1], 2-464 pp, 1 pl (B&W), 1 map (folding). Vol 2, frontis, [3], (vi-xii), [1], 2-343, [1], 12 pp Welsh Airs, [1], 346-450 pp, [1] errata, [1] adverts, 1 pl. Some offsetting, pencil notes, repair to map, small blue paper initial to fpds. (Anderson 338. Libri Walliae 563/4. Allibone 190). Title continues: And some sketches of its Natural History delineated from two excursions through all the interesting parts of that country during the Summers of 1798 and 1801. Illustrated with a Map, Frontispieces and Music. Bingley, naturalist and Church of England clergyman, was noted writer on botany, topography, and popular zoology. His travels in Wales while still an undergraduate formed the basis of his two-volume, illustrated, Tour of North Wales (1800; 2nd edn, 1814), which includes a catalogue of Welsh plants. He returned to Wales in 1801 and afterwards issued a topographical account, North Wales (2 vols., 1804). See ODNB for a full Bio.