TitleAn History of Birmingham
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AuthorHutton W
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CountyWarwickshire
TownBirmingham
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Purchase Date07/31/2011
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Cost$50.51
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AN HISTORY OF BIRMINGHAM 1783 - 20 Plates and Maps
1783
'AN HISTORY OF BIRMINGHAM'
The Second Edition With Considerable Additions by W.HUTTON.
Half Title with 20 plates and maps including several pull outs including:
"A South View of Birmingham from the Summer House, Cheapside, Bordsley" (pull-out)
"A Plan of Birmingham Survey'd by Thos Hanson 1781" (pull-out)
"Swan Birmingham"
"The Alms House"
"St John's Chapel, Deritend"
"St Bartholomew's Chapel"
"St Mary's Chapel"
"St Paul's Chapel"
"New Meeting / Old Meeting"
"Birmingham Theatre Hotel and Tavern"
"Hotel"
"Free School" "Charity School"
"Work House"
"Welch Cross / Old Cross"
"St Martin's Church"
"St Philip's Church" (pull-out)
"General Hospital"
"A Plan of the Navigable Canal from Birmingham to Autherley" (pull-out)
"Navigation Office"
"The New Brass Works"
Original binding, worn and fragile but complete.
Price Guide
ABE July 2011 no copies of this edition; 3 others
1. An History of Birmingham. Hutton. W
Bookseller: Richard Booth's Bookshop (Hereford, United Kingdom)
Book Description: 1795. HardBack. No jacket. The Third Edition, With Considerable and New Engravings of the Public Buildings.Printed and sold by Thomas Pearson. Professionally rebound, half leather marbled boards. Some damage to both folding maps tears to map folds. Heavy watermark to plate 173, same to 176,178,180. Tear to page 287 not affecting text.
Price: £ 150.00

2. An History of Birmingham to the End of the Year 1780 Hutton, W.
Bookseller: Brainbooks (Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.)
Book Description: Pearson and Rollason, Birmingham, England, UK, 1781. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This is a rare book, a fascinating insight into 18th Century Birmingham, England; 280 pages, a folding panorama, 13 engraved plates and 2 maps; the street map has a small tear near the nighte which goes into the map but no loss; book has been professionally rebound with a leather spine over marbled boards; spine has six compartments with blind stamped motifs in faive and a gilt and morocco title piece; there is some occasional slight browning; photos available.
Price: £ 188.06

3. Bookseller Image An History of Birmingham, to the End of the Year 1780. HUTTON, WILLIAM .
Bookseller: John Taylor Books P.B.F.A. (Bridport, DOR, United Kingdom)
Book Description: Birmingham: Printed by and for Pearson and Rollason, 1781., 1781. First edition 8vo. (8.75 x 5.5 inches). pp.2 [blanks] + xii + 10 [unpaginated list of subscribers] + 280 + 2 [blanks]. Three extra leaves numbered 7*- 8*, 179* - 180*, and 233* - 234* inserted into the numbered sequence. Folding engraved frontispiece. Two folding maps. Fourteen hors texte plates, one of them fold-out. List of Subscribers. Recently rebound in a simple brown cloth, gilt to spine. Signature of William Hunt to the fly leaf [Hunt was one of the subscribers]. Beneath, signed 'George Hunt, from Uncle James, 22nd September 1856'. The fourth plate has a one-inch vertical fold to the fore-edge. The fourth and final flap of the second fold-out map is detached along the fold, but is present and not torn. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy.
Price: £ 330.00