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Guide book, A Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 1823, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, Stationers' Court, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, 7th edn 1843.
The guide book is rebound in cloth by Riley Dunn and Wilson. It has:- frontispiece, map; title page with illustration of Scroggs, preface, contents list, table of symbols for the map; pp.1-220 descriptive text including illustrations and plates of outline views, itineraries; notes on botany, geology, meteorology, floating island in Derwent Water, black lead mine at Seathwaite; appendix, Lonsdale and the Caves; index; list of illustrations.
Scroggs Farm, Loughrigg, illustrated on the title page, is where Jonathan Otley was born. The outline views are the 'third type' as described for the 8th edition.
The map is recorded separately.
source type:- Otley 1823 (7th edn 1843)
book feature:- frontispiece (map) & map & title page & contents & table of symbols (for the map) & descriptive text & illustrations (engravings throughout text) & plates & outline views (engravings) & itineraries & addenda & index & advertisements
inscription:- embossed spine
A / DESCRIPTIVE / GUIDE TO / ENGLISH / LAKES / OTLEY
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inscription:- printed title page
A / DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE / TO THE / ENGLISH LAKES, / AND ADJACENT / MOUNTAINS : / WITH NOTICES OF THE / Botany, Mineralogy, and Geology of the District. / BY JONATHAN OTLEY. / SEVENTH EDITION. / TO WHICH IS ADDED, / AN EXCURSION THROUGH LONSDALE TO THE CAVES. / KESWICK : / PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR; / BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO., STATIONERS' COURT, LONDON / AND ARTHUR FOSTER, KIRKBY LONSDALE. / 1843.
wxh:- 12x20cm
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