15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 104
 

104

Brighton The Three Grand Routes from Brighton to London, and Topography of that Fashionable...

Brighton
The Three Grand Routes from Brighton to London, and Topography of that Fashionable Watering Place. Brighton: Printed by J. Forbes for W. Saunders, 1815. 8vo, half calf over marbled boards, blue speckled edges; pp. [2 (title, verso blank)], [iv]-viii (poss. lacking half-title), 96, [2 (Errata, Directions to Binder)]; large folding map frontis of "Brighthelmstone", folding map of roads leading to London, hand-coloured, cut too close with loss of margin and small loss to side of map, two plates (as called for in Directions). A guide to Brighton (including a description of the interior of the Marine Pavillion from the year Nash began his developments) and the main road routes, including towns, farms and inns along the route. Poss. second edition, Worldcat lists an earlier 1811 edition printed in Lewes. Seemingly scarce with Worldcat and Copac listing the 1811 only at the V&A and the 1815 at the BL. We have been unable to easily trace a copy at auction.

Sold for £60
Estimated at £100 - £200


 

. Binding worn with cracking to joints, though boards still attached, internally spotted and stained but still good.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 15th Mar, 2019

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