Polwhele Cornwall (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Marbled boards with leather spine xx + 214 pages Appears to have been printed without illustrations Front hinge tender otherwise Good condition Volume one only. Original owner's heraldic book plate on inside cover (Rev, Richard Gerveys Grylls).

xix + 214pp, sm 4to, later half calf, cloth boards, qtr morocco, cloth boards, slightly rubbed to edges, short split to top outer hinge, front inner hinge cracked though sound. Includes chapters on the first inhabitants of Danmonium, the Romans, the Saxons, and the Normans. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ).

1797, 1793, 1806, Exeter, printed by Trewman and Son, for Cadell, Johnson, and Dilly, London, folio, three volumes in one, pp xii, 329, (iv), ii, (ii), 382, (ii), 383-504, (i), engraved folding map after John Cary, 24 full-page copper plate engravings, extra-illustrated with a steel-engraved portrait of Polwhele, and some manuscript notes bound in towards the end, full calf by Hayday, gilt rules in compartments on the spine, lettered in gilt, gilt ruled boards, elaborate gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. This is a heavy book and will incur extra postage. Some repair work on the spine, but a very handsome and clean copy.