Delineations of the North Western Division of the County of Somerset, RUTTER (John).

and of its Antediluvian Bone Caverns, with a Geological Sketch of the District.

Engraved frontispiece, 11 plates, hand-coloured folding map and woodcuts throughout the text.

First Edition. 8vo. Large Paper Copy. [268 x 165 x 35 mm]. xxiv, 349 pp. Bound in the original light blue boards, the front cover printed with the title and illustration of a Norman doorway, rebacked with grey paper, uncut edges. (A little bumped and soiled).
Shaftesbury: printed and published by the Author. London: Longman, Rees, and Co. and A. Arch, 1829.

The front cover indicates that this is a Large Paper Copy, with early impressions of the plates, priced at 21 shillings. The List of Subscribers at the end distinguishes between those who paid for Proofs on India Paper, Large Paper and Small Paper. Many were local booksellers, including Messrs. Rattle and Brine of Bath.

A little light spotting but a very good copy. With the ink signature of Thomas Bush dated 1891 (?) and ink stamp of G[ifford]. Stansfield Broun (1888-1965) of Combe Down, Bath.

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