The History and Antiquities of Winchester. WINCHESTER.

The History and Antiquities of Winchester, Setting Forth its Original Constitution, Government, Manufactories, Trade, Commerce and Navigation; Its Several Wards, Parishes, Precincts, Districts, Churches, Religious and Charitable Foundations, and Other Public Edifices: Together with the Charters, Laws, Customs, Rights, Liberties, and Privileges of that Ancient City. Illustrated with a Variety of Plates.

Engraved frontispiece in both volumes and 11 plates (two of them folding) by I. Taylor after W. Caveross.

First Edition. Two volumes. 8vo. [177 x 107 x 40 mm]. x, [ii], 237 pp; [2]ff, 299 pp. Bound c.1820 in half calf, marbled paper sides, smooth spines divided into six panels by gilt double fillets, lettered in the second and numbered in the fourth, the others with a thistel tool, plain endleaves, lightly sprinkled edges. (Spines worn and sides rubbed).
Winton [i.e. Winchester]: printed and sold by J. Wilkes. Sold also by S. Crowder, and R. Baldwin, in Pater-Noster-Row, London; and by J. Hodson and Co. in Salisbury, 1773.

Sometimes wrongly attributed to Thomas Wharton. A few spots and minor soiling, but a good copy. A signature dated 1830 has been erased.

Stock no. ebc8191