Bowyer (Robert); 'Plates to Hume's England', a bound elephan...

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£140

Bowyer (Robert); 'Plates to Hume's England', a bound elephant folio containing over 140 full page engraved book plates from Robert Bowyer's edition of 'The History of England' by David Hume, 1795, published Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London, 1793, 47.5cm high, together with an 1816 copy of 'Hume's History of England', printed for Hatchard in eight volumes (9)
Provenance; The Alan Winning Collection of Antiquarian Maps, Books and Atlases. Beginning in the 1970’s with an interest in the 19th Century development of the railway network and the County Maps of this period that charted it, Alan expanded his academic interest into good early printed maps, town plans, travel guides, books and atlases and has been adding to his collection over the past 50 years.