Topography - Kent - Provincial Imprint, The Kentish Travelle...

Hammer

£80

Topography - Kent - Provincial Imprint, The Kentish Traveller's Companion, in a Descriptive View of the Towns, Villages, remarkable Buildings and Antiquities, Situated On or Near The Road from London to Margate, Dover and Canterbury, Illustrated With a correct Map of the Road on a Scale of One Inch to a Mile, Second Edition, considerably enlarged, Canterbury and Rochester: Printed and Sold by Simmons and Kirby [...]; and T. Fisher, 1779, pp: iv, 248, [8] (index), 3 three-fold road maps, contemporary calf over marbled boards (perished and rubbed, upper-cover detached), slightly later ink MS dated ownership inscription: Skarespeare Book 1803, 8vo, (1); [...] The Fourth Edition, with Considerable Additions, Canterbury: Printed and Sold by Simmons, Kirkby, and Jones [...], 1794, pp: [2] (blank), fold-out distance table frontispiece, iv, 337, [7] (index), [2] (blank), 3 three-fold road maps, 20th century black morocco gilt over marbled boards by Graham Bloodworth, Leicester, his ticket, marbled endpapers en suite, 8vo, (1); Kidd's Picturesque Pocket Companion to Dover; or, The Stranger's Vade-Mecum, The Illustrations designed and engraved by G.W. Bonner, London: James Gilbert, [n.d., c. 1830], pp: [2] (blank), vi, 38, [2] (blank), wood engraved frontispiece and in-text illustrations, later 19th century boards over contemporary pictorial wrappers as issued, the upper-cover with Bibliotheca Cantiana collection label inscribed in ink MS with the title, further Bibliotheca Cantiana: Wm. John Mercer book label to recto pastedown, 18mo, (1), [3]