‎LYSONS, Daniel‎
‎THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON: being an historical account of the Towns, Villages and Hamlets, within Twelve Miles of that Capital [...] Volume I: COUNTRY OF SURREY. Volume II-III: COUNTRY OF MIDDLESEX. Volume IV: COUNTRY OF HERTS, ESSEX & KENT. ‎

‎ 1792 London: printed by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell in the Strand, 1792-1796. Complete set of 4 in-4 vol.: 26 x 33.5 cm. I/ 1 map, xii-593 pp. + 24 engr. pl., 4 ff. of index, 1 f. errata; II/ 1 map, vi-598 pp. + 14 engr. pl., 23 ff. of index; III/ v-[1]-706 pp. including index + 11 engr. pl.; IV/ 1 map., vi-724 pp. including index + 11 engr. pl., 2 ff. errata. First edition richly illustrated with 3 maps, 4 title-page vignettes and 60 inset engraved plates. Contemporary red long-grain morocco. Gilt title on spine. Gilt filets-roll on convers. Rolled doublures and marbled endpapers. Gilt edges. Ex-libris: Archibald Philipp Earl of Rosbery. Very nice copy luxuriously bound.‎

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‎The Environs est le principal ouvrage de Daniel Lysons (1762-1834), qui a dessiné lui-même la plupart des illustrations "The whole forms a work of permenant value; the arrangement is clear and the style interesting; while the copious extracts from the parochial registers, though occasionally inaccurate, are useful to the biographer and genealogist" (Oxford DNB). Archibald Philip Primrose (1847 1929), 5e comte de Rosebery, connu également à partir de 1851 sous le titre de courtoisie de Lord Dalmeny, fut Premier ministre de la reine Victoria de 1894 à 1895. ‎