Hutton w william 1723 1815 (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Fair, 1803, 1st ed, 4 pls, in worn half calf over worn boards, corners & edges bumped & worn. Spine, worn, gilt tooling, no titles, edges worn. Internally, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-xii), [1], 2-224 pp, [2] index, [2] pl list & advert, 1 pl, 3 folding summit views (water stained & 2 torn along joints), ink note to fep, ink dedication to verso fep, & to half title, tp & finally to ep (John Nugent? Wood Newton Hall Middlechurch Cheshire). (Folio, 123*203 mm). (Lowndes 1153. Allibone 929). Hutton, historian enjoyed many recreations, which included music, boating, fishing, fives, excursions around Birmingham, & visits to the races at Nottingham! See ODNB. BARBER J (illustratore).…

A nicely re-bound copy of the First Edition 8vo.326pps with Portrait frontispiece large folding hand coloured map of Cleveland and three engraved plates as called for Boyne CCLXXII page 193. William Hutton was an English poet, historian & unitarian non-conformist born in Derby. He wrote many books commencing with a History of Birmingham (1781) as well as a history of his home town but was also a celebrated walker walking the entire length of Hadrian's Wall some 600 miles in 1801 and said to be the first person to do so.The novelist Jane Gardam herself from Coatham, writes interestingly about the book in "The Iron Coast".…