A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions : illustrated by maps of the different counties and islands : a map of England shewing the principal towns, roads, railways, navigable rivers, and canals : and a plan of London and its environs : and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishoprics, universities, colleges, corporate towns, and boroughs : and of the seals of the several municipal corporations / by Samuel Lewis.

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Creator:: Lewis, Samuel, -1865
Title(s):: A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions : illustrated by maps of the different counties and islands : a map of England shewing the principal towns, roads, railways, navigable rivers, and canals : and a plan of London and its environs : and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishoprics, universities, colleges, corporate towns, and boroughs : and of the seals of the several municipal corporations / by Samuel Lewis.
Published/Created:: London : Published by S. Lewis and Co., 87, Aldersgate Street, 1831.
[Andover] : Printed by Bentley, [1831]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes ; 32 cm and 1 atlas ([43] leaves of plates) : maps ; 32 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA625 .L48+ Oversize
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3826349
Classification:: Books
Notes:: The atlas comprises 43 maps, engraved by J. & C. Walker and Thomas Starling; after R. Creighton.
Text printed in two columns.
Chubb, T. Printed maps in the atlases of Great Britain and Ireland, CCCCXXX
List of subscribers: volume 1, page xvii-lxviii.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in later brown half morocco and brown cloth. Armorial bookplate: Frederick J.O. Montagu. Lacks original atlast; has, instead, atlas of later issue, with maps of England and Wales (cataloged separately: DA625 .L48a+).
Subject Terms:: Bentley -- Printer.
Great Britain -- Gazetteers.
Great Britain -- History, Local -- Dictionaries.
Montagu, Frederick J. O. -- Bookplate.
Names, Geographical -- Great Britain.
Form/Genre:: Engravings -- 1831.
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1831.
Subscriber's lists.
Atlases.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Contributors:: J. & C. Walker (Firm) engraver.
Starling, Thomas, engraver.
Creighton, R., cartographer.
S. Lewis and Co. (London, England), publisher.
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