The Reverend John LyonBiblio.com
The History of the Town and Port of Dover and of Dover Castle; With a Short Account of the Cinque Ports. Two Volume Set
1814Best.-Nr. 001864Dover / London: Printed for the Author by Ledger and Shaw / Longman Hurst Reese Orme and Brown 1814. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Two volume set. 4tos Vol I - xlviii pp366 with 7 b/w plates 6 fold-out and 1 full page missing plate 8 With an extra 10 pages of "Extract from the Thanet Magazine 1817 Biography of The Reverend John Lyon Minister of St Marys Dover" pasted into book just before the introduction. Vol II - v pp390 complete with10 b/w plates 1 fold-out. Both volumes bound in half vellum over marbled boards with paper title labels to spine bindings in good condition with some marking to vellum some rubbing to boards and edges and loss to parts of title labels. Inside both volumes bookplate of H. Martin Mowll Baron Henry Martyn Mowll of the Cinque Ports to front pastedowns. There is smatterings of foxing throughout books worse at the beginning and end of volumes with Vol II slightly cleaner. The fold out plates are Foxed with some transfer. A reasonable tightly bound set with an interesting provenance and extra biography of author. This is a heavy set and may cost more postage overseas. Printed for the Author, by Ledger and Shaw / Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, and Brown hardcover
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