EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. – John Ackerson ERREDGE. History of Brighthelmston

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. – John Ackerson ERREDGE. History of Brighthelmston, or Brighton as I View It and Others Knew It. Brighton: by E. Lewis, ‘Observer’ Office, 1862. First edition, 8vo (209 x 133mm.) Extra-illustrated with numerous engraved plates and maps, some folding, including a ‘Panoramic View of Brighton West’, a hand-coloured lithograph of St. Peter’s Church, a double-paged lithograph of the ‘Chain Pier’ and engraved plates of ‘The Lanes’, original wrappers bound-in. (Stamps to plate margins, toning, occasional spotting.) Near contemporary red half morocco, t.e.g. (extremities rubbed). Provenance: E.W. Margesson (ink name verso front endpaper, dated 1905); West Sussex County Council (label to rear pastedown). – And a further two extra-illustrated volumes, two copies of John George Bishop’s ‘A Peep into the Past: Brighton in the Olden Time, with Glances at the Present’, 1880, 4to) (3).

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