A late 18th century illustrated Bible: "Brown's Self-Interpr...

Hammer

£55

A late 18th century illustrated Bible: "Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible" by Rev. John Brown (1722-1787); Russell's "England Displayed: being a new, complete and accurate survey and description of the Kingdom of England and Principality of Wales" (1769) volumes 1 & 2 with hand-written index - Vol 2 page 27: "From Berkley we proceeded to Wotton under Edge, situated on a pleasant and fruitful eminence, at the distance of ninety-nine miles from London. It is a pretty town and long since noted for the making of cloth. The chief magistrate, who is chose yearly at the Earl of Berkley's court-leet, is called a mayor, and is ever after an alderman. Here is a large stately church, which is a vicarage, and hath two wide isles, and an high handsome tower, adorned with battlements and pinnacles. In this church are several tombs and monuments, chiefly belonging to the Berkley family. here are also a free-school, and an alms-house for six poor men and six women. The town is well supplied with water, which was brought hither at the expense of Hugh Perry Esq, alderman of London, in the year 1632. Here is a weekly market on Friday, and an annual fair of the twenty-fifth of September, for cattle and cheese."; together with a book illustrating the roads of England and Wales (originally 1675, reprinted 1939)