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A GUIDE TO THE LAKES IN CUMBERLAND, WESTMORLAND AND LANCASHIRE by the Author of The Antiquites of Furness (T. West). Second Edition, Revised throughout and greatly enlarged. Publisher: Printed for Richardson and Urqumart under the Royal Exchange, London, 1780. Description: Half leather binding with marbled covers, 5 raised bands on spine with red pastedown label with gilt lettering. Stained edges. Fold-out engraving of Grasmere frontis. Condition: Good+. Covers are well rubbed with soiling and edge wear. Leather spine edges are rubbed and cracked near top edge. Homemade bookplate on inside cover, light pencil notations. Staining from glue and creases from use. some separation of frontis from spine (see photos). Browning to pages, but all are present and tight to the spine. Pages: 292 Size: 5" x 7.5" Weight: 14 oz Good copy of a scarce edition (1780) of this book. Check out my other current book listings. I will combine shipping for the best rate. Ask if you have questions. No reserve. You bid, it sells! This book is from the estate of John Robert Gregg Jr. Born April 25, 1935 in Manhattan, N.Y. to John Robert Gregg, inventor of Gregg shorthand, and Janet Kinley Gregg, daughter of economist David Kinley, he worked briefly as an editor for the Sierra Club in San Francisco before moving to York, Maine in 1967, where he lived the rest of his life winter, spring and fall. He died in York in 2019. Summers he spent at his beloved cottage on the French River, Ontario. His extensive collected library was supplemented by inherited collections from a number of allied families who lived in both Chicago and Manhattan. Subjects include Canadian and Arctic exploration, Inuits, American Revolutionary War; Novels and poetry by William Shakespeare, Keats and Shelley, Marlowe, Bierce, Douglas, as well as plays etc. I purchased several hundred of his books at auction and will be listing them, probably until I die!
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