Lot 251 , LAKE DISTRICT: Baines, Edward. A Companion to the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, folding engraved map with outline hand-colouring, 5-line errata slip bound-in, a ‘New Itinerary’ and index to rear, ori

° LAKE DISTRICT: Baines, Edward. A Companion to the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, folding engraved map with outline hand-colouring, 5-line errata slip bound-in, a ‘New Itinerary’ and index to rear, original green cloth with paper label to spine, London, Hurst Chance & Co., 1829, 12mo. Sold with two copies of Jonathan Otley’s ‘A Concise Description of the English Lakes’, 1823, and the second edition of 1825, and also [Thomas West’s] ‘A Guide to the Lakes’, 1807, and eight more related volumes (12).
£60-80

Condition:
Baines- offsetting and spotting to title, spotting to rear endpapers, text gen. clean, chipping to spine ends and seam splitting, minor staining to covers; Otley- folding map frontispiece, some damp-staining to last leaves and rear pastedown, ink ownership of Henry Wilson, some loss to spine and staining to covers; Otley, 1825- folding map frontispiece, errata to rear, blanks replaced, minor loss to spine panel; West- rebound with front blank and endpapers replaced, ink ownership (twice) of George Taylor to title, map in rear pocket.

Sold for £130