first edition Hardcover
1752 · Londini
by (BURTON, John; William Bowyer)
Londini: Prostant apud J. & J. Rivington, in Cœmeterio Paulino, & J. Fletcher, Oxon, 1752. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. pp. [i-ii] iii-lxiv, 1-66 [2]. With a final errata/advertisement leaf. Bound in later three-quarter red morocco and marbled paper over boards, gilt spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Early manuscript note and owner's name in ink on the front free endpaper (verso) and facing fly leaf. Front board very gently bowed near the fore edge, modest soiling to title page and light foxing to the final errata/advertisment leaf, about near fine. A lovely copy of Burton's travelogue, ‘Journey through Surrey into Sussex' printed in Latin and Greek by William Bowyer. Numerous extracts from Burton's tour were later published in English in the *Sussex Archaeological Collections* under the title *Extracts from the ‘inter Sussexiense' (1857). A scarce copy in a handsome binding. *ESTC* T144890; Maslen and Lancaster, *Bowyer ledgers*, 3743.
(Inventory #: 432296)