Lot 197 , SOMERSET: Collinson, Rev. John - The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, collected from Authentick Records, and an Actual Survey made by the late Mr. Edmund Rack.... 3 vols. folded map, pictorial plan of B

° SOMERSET: Collinson, Rev. John - The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, collected from Authentick Records, and an Actual Survey made by the late Mr. Edmund Rack.... 3 vols. folded map, pictorial plan of Bath, 39 plates, some text decorations and a mounted vignette, subscribers list, half titles; later library half morocco and cloth, blind ruled and gilt lettered spines, roy. 4to. Bath: printed by R. Cruttwell; and sold by C. Dilly, Poultry....1791
£80-120

Condition:
Ex-lib. with stamps on titles, half titles, in a few margins, and on plt. versos (spines 'clean'); map with folds creasing and 2/3 tears (with sl. loss), some spotting and 'dinginess', an ink splash avoids cartouche title (not the adjacent illus); vol. 1 soiled down the rh. and along lower edge, marginal ink notes pp.372 and 465, in text also p.379, tear pp. 445/46 (2 word loss); vol. 3 - 2plts. tightly bound in with legend beneath obscured; some plate and other foxing: (1), ii, (10), (vii) - lii, 45, 84, 275: (3), 508 and (3), 648pp; with binder's direction leaf

Sold for £80