Lot 328
Birmingham - Bisset, James
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 January 2015 at 11:00 GMT
£450
Description
Bisset's magnificent guide, or grand copperplate directory for the town of Birmingham. Birmingham: R. Jabet for the Author, 1808. 8vo, engraved map, title with vignette and 51 plates, original printed boards, edges worn, neatly rebacked
Footnote
Note: "The work by which he will be longest remembered and one quite unique in its kind" (DNB.) This is the second edition of his Poetic Survey round Birmingham, 1800, without the poem, but with twice as many plates. The plates include views of the streets, offices, factories and warehouses, besides list of tradesmen, reproductions of trade cards, etc., all finely engraved.