Cornouailles

1769 · 142086 — London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for S. Baker and G. Leigh T. Payne and Benjamin White 1769. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fair. London Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for S. Baker and G. Leigh T. Payne and Benjamin White 1769 'Second Edition revised with several Additions'/ 1754. Folio xvi 464 pages with 13 illustrations plus 25 plates one folding and 2 maps one folding. Modern ledger-style half calf and cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; leather rubbed marked and a little sunned; cloth a little marked; minor worming to the bottom margin of the first ten leaves with tissue-paper repairs to the first four; first and last two leaves three of them blank heavily foxed with scattered foxing elsewhere; bottom edge of the folding map of Cornwall reinforced with paper on the verso with minimal loss to the bottom and leading margins and some creases along the folds; old damp-stain near the bottom corner of the last 40 leaves; paper infill to minor loss to the leading edge of the second-last leaf affecting the first word of eight entries in the Wea-Wel section of the Cornish-English vocabulary; early tissue-paper repairs to a handful of leaves; overall a decent copy. The early ownership details of 'Glasson Greenbank Falmouth' are written in ink at the head of the title page; later the armorial bookplate of the Blackmore Museum Library Salisbury was mounted on the verso of the title leaf; most recently Emeritus Professor J.V.S. Megaw appended his small pictorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for S. Baker and G. Leigh, T. Payne, and Benjamin White hardcover