(Essex, East Anglia, Topography, History.) 'The lives of emi...

Hammer

£30

(Essex, East Anglia, Topography, History.) 'The lives of eminent & remarkable characters, born or long resident in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, & Norfolk.', London, Longman et al, 1820, [144]pp, 68 engraved portraits as called for, each with corresponding biographical text, including Sir Robert Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Horatio Nelson, Edward Jerningham etc. etc., three quarter crushed crimson morocco gilt over marbled paper covered boards, spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, together with William Gaskill: 'Essex Leaders Social and Political', London, c.1906, profusely illustrated with portrait plates throughout, thick 4to, original half calf gilt (worn) backstrip detached but present, plus A.R. Hope Moncrieff & L. Burleigh Bruhl: 'Essex', L, A & C Black, 1909, 1st edition, 75 colour plates + 1 folding map as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt (slightly worn, inner joint weak) (3)