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FIRST EDITION. This is a curious work focusing on the rivers of Great Britain. Seventeen regional maps illustrate them with their tributaries. The accompanying text describes each one and the country through which they flow. The title page describes Henry Skrine as being the successful author of ‘three successive Tours in the North of England and Scotland in 1795, and two successive Tours in South and North Wales’. Provenance: private English collection. Upcott xxviii.
SKRINE, Henry
A General Account of all the Rivers of Note in Great Britain; with their several courses, their peculiar characters, the countries through which they flow, and the entire sea coast of our island
London, 1801
Octavo (220 x 135 mm.), full contemporary marbled calf. Ornate gilt spine with gilt title. With double page folding aquatint frontispiece and seventeen engraved maps. pp. xx, 412. Some offsetting to the maps.
Stock number: 1905
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