Descriptions of The Country from thirty to forty Miles around Manchester

London: John Stockdale, 1795. First edition. leather_bound. Modern full brown calf. Fine. 624 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Engraved frontispiece and additional title, two immense folding engraved maps (including one hand-coloured map of country around Manchester, 43 engraved plates and 18 single-page maps and plans, list of subscribers includes Booksellers as a separate entity after the alphabetical list. Contains a section on canals in the area. Index. All interior plates with tissue guards, some of which slightly toned. Interior contents generally clean and fresh. LOWNDES, I, p.22. UPCOT. pps 462-465. Owner inscription free front endpaper. A large, very heavy tome weighing over eight pounds. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, black leather spine label printed in gilt with cover border panels in both blind and gilt arabesques.