Topography - Robinson (William, Gent., F.S.A.), The History ...

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Topography - Robinson (William, Gent., F.S.A.), The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Edmonton, in the County of Middlesex; comprising an Account of the Manors, the Church, and Southgate Chapel, with other Interesting Matter [...], first and presumably only edition, Printed for the Author [...], London 1819, pp: xiii, [i], 331, thirteen engravings as called for: title-page with fold-out thirty-fold [...] Map of the Parish [...] Shewing (sic) the Allotments in the Common Fields & Common Marshes as divided by Act of Parliament in the Years 1801 & 1802, engraving with contemporary hand-coloured cartographic delineations, 53cm x 73cm, further Plan of the Orsett Estate, and further topographical and antiquarian studies and reproduced portraits, contemporary Regency calf gilt lettered and tooled spine with plain calf boards, the upper board with ironic MS label: Keep in the Family, repeated to top margin of recto endpaper, inscribed in pencil Baron Platt with additional tipped-in ink MS letter from Newnham Lodge, Hook, Hans, indistinctly signed and dated 1942, citing the book was the his grandfather's Sir Thomas Joshua Platt [KC], ''most commonly known as Baron Platt'', [1788/90 - 1862, British judge who served as Baron of the Exchequer], 8vo