Fenton (Richard). A Tour in quest of Genealogy, through... Wales, Somersetshire, and Wiltshire, 1811

[Fenton, Richard]. A Tour in quest of Genealogy, through several parts of Wales, Somersetshire, and Wiltshire, in a series of letters to a friend in Dublin; interspersed with a description of Stourhead and Stonehenge; together with various anecdotes, and curious fragments from a manuscript collection ascribed to Shakespeare, by a Barrister, London: Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1811, eight engraved plates, front pastedown with armorial bookplate of the antiquary Edward Duke (1779-1852, of Lake House, Wilsford cum Lake, Wiltshire) and front blank with his manuscript notes regarding the volume, contemporary half calf, gilt & blind decorated spine with morocco title label, 8vo, together with:
Gilpin (William), Remarks on Forest Scenery, and other Woodland Views ... illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: R. Blamire, 1794, half-titles, 31 etched plates (including tinted aquatint plates), double-page hand-coloured map, occasional spotting and few marks (ink spot to lower outer blank corner of three leaves in volume 2), armorial bookplate of Rev. Tatton Brockman to upper pastedowns, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain green morocco, spines lightly browned, 8vo,
Shaw (Stebbing), A Tour to the West of England, in 1788, London: Robson, Clarke and J. Walker, 1789, short closed tear at head of title, occasional light spotting, endpapers renewed, contemporary half calf, rebacked, 8vo,
[Young, Arthur], A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales..., 3rd edition, London: W. Strahan, W. Nicoll [& others], 1772, two engraved plates (including frontispiece) and folding plan, occasional light damp stains, endpapers renewed, contemporary sheep, rebacked retaining maroon morocco title label, 8vo, plus three others, including Maton (William George), Observations relative chiefly to the natural history, picturesque scenery, and antiquities, of the western counties of England, made in the years 1794 and 1796, 2 volumes, Salisbury: J. Easton, 1797; Journal of a tour to the western counties of England, performed in the summer of 1807, by the author of a tour in Ireland, London: Richard Phillips, 1809; Dewar (George), Wild Life in Hampshire Highlands, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1899, and Wiltshire portion of Pigot's Directory, 1830

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