SKRINE, Henry: A General Account of all the Rivers of Note in Great Britain

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SKRINE, Henry : A General Account of all the Rivers of Note in Great Britain

Octavo (215 x 140 mm.), half modern brown morocco with marbled paper boards. With raised bands to the spine and gilt red calf title pasted on. With double page folding aquatint frontispiece and 17 engraved maps. pp. xx, 412. Some offsetting to the maps.

FIRST EDITION. This is a curious work focusing on the rivers of Great Britain, seventeen regional maps illustrate them with their tributaries. The accompanying text describes each one and the country through which they flow. The title page describes Henry Skrine as being the successful author of “three successive Tours in the North of England and Scotland in 1795, and two successive Tours in South and North Wales”. Provenance: private English collection. Upcott (1968) xxviii.

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