A New Description of England and Wales, with the adjacent islands. Wherein are contained, diverse useful observations and discoveries in respect to natural history, antiquities, customs, honours, privileges, &c. with a particular account of the products, trade, and manufactures

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WITH TWO GENERAL AND FORTY EIGHT COUNTY MAPS The rare first edition, first issue (maps not coloured or numbered), 1724, in full contemporary panelled calf, tips repaired. Re-cased, retaining the old, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, gilt title to calf label. Internally, rubricated title, [2], [1], (ii-xi), [1] list, 343 pp (ie344), [1], (ii-x) index, 2 General Maps (folding), & 48 County Maps, p344 miss-numbered 343, misspelling at p225 (Shropsshire), small illustration within text at p72, brown mark to head Y1 to Y4 1cms, very occasional light spotting. A superb example. (signatures: [7] ff, B-Xx4, (Yy-Aa) index). (346*216 mm). (ESTC T145692. Worms p457. Brunet III, 1816; Chubb CLX). Brunet comments that a device illustrated in the map opposite p. 285 (West Riding of Yorkshire) bears a resemblance to a guillotine, which was the preferred method of execution in Halifax at the time! Title continues: of the respective places in every county, and their improvements or decays. Together with many uncommon observations concerning mines of several sorts. Also, several errors of different kinds are rectified. The whole illustrated with many historical and critical remarks. To which is added, a new and correct set of maps of each County, their roads and distances; and, to render 'em the more acceptable to the curious, their margins are adorn'd with great variety of very remarkable antiquities, &c