THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES, VOL. 1 (includes BEDFORDSHIRE)

24cm x 15.5cm pp. 400 including maps and plates plus unpaginated appendices, full calf with blind tooling on the covers and gilt tooling on the spine. 

The Beauties of England and Wales series of books describes the topography and local history of England and Wales and appeared in 18 multi-part volumes arranged by county. Each volume contains engraved illustrations by artists such as Thomas Hearne, J. M. W. Turner, John Varley, and Benjamin West, whilst Charles Dickens presides amongst the series' most famous readers. This volume covers Bedfordshire, Bucks, and Berks.

Marks to covers front and rear, wear to front and rear hinge, top lip of spine missing. Ownership plate on front pastedown, occasional foxing, particularly to plate margins.