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Dibdin's Northern Tour inscribed original boards

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Title: A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Countries of England and in Scotland
Author: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Description: 2 volumes. xv, [3] leaves, [i]-30, [3] leaves, [1]-436; [2] leaves, [437]-1090 pp. Engraved frontispieces and 40 engraved plates and facsimiles (per plate list) + a few additional plates added in second volume, many engraved illustrations in the text. Plates and text illustrations all with tissue guards. 10x6¼, original boards, paper spine labels, pages edges untrimmed. First Edition.Very rare presentation copy, uncut in original boards, of Dibdin's major work on English libraries and book collecting. Dibdin's second "Bibliographical Tour", after his popular France & Germany published in 1821. The present volume of interest for the " . . . delightful account of an evening spent with golfers of St. Andrews." Inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper, H.W. Thomson M.D. from his old and affectionate friend, The Author, May 3, 1838. Ink ownership signature of E.R. Pfefferkorn to front pastedown. Donovan & Murdoch p. 2, Johnston p. 716.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Printed for the Author by C. Richards
Date Published: 1838