A Walk Through Southampton. Second edition, considerably augmented: to which is added, some account of the Roman Station, Clausentum.

[xii], 147, [1], [4]pp, sepia frontispiece & plates as called for, woodcut illustrations in text, additional portrait of the author inserted at front. A nice clean copy. Contemp. full diced brown calf, decorative gilt borders, spine ruled & decorated in gilt; extremities sl. rubbed. Inscription on verso of leading f.e.p.: 'Mary Gell, the gift of the Author'. An interesting copy. Presented by the author, the English antiquary and astronomer Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 7th Baronet, 1752-1822, to Mary Gell, a member of the Gell family of Hapton Hall, Derbyshire, and relative of Sir William Gell, 1777-1836, classical archaeologist, and his brother Philip Gell, 1775–1842, British Whig politician. Letters from Sir William to Isabella Gell and from Isabella to Mary, 'her aunt', are recorded in the Derbyshire record office. Inserted at the end of the volume, are two privately printed poems by Englefield, both heavily impressed and printed on four pages, separately dated but continuously paginated. The first, 'To the Memory of William Fifth Duke of Devonshire' (1813) is recorded at Edinburgh on Copac and at Yale only on OCLC. The second, 'Inscription for a Monument', 1801, is unrecorded although both are held at the Museum of English Rural Life which houses the Englefield archive. 'Inscription to a Monument' was written 'to the memory of those sailors, whose bodies were (after the wreck of the Royal George, who sunk at her anchors, at Spithead, in the year 1782) cast up on the beach, at Ryde'.…