In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. With b/w photographic plates. Fold out map at back. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; In removable plastic cover. Spine slightly darkened. Small marks to covers. A few small chips around edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. One of a set of books describing the Counties of the British Isles as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Lincolnshire. The author describes the geology and geography of the county and how it has influenced the lives and work of the people who live there. The saga of Lincolshire worthies provides an impressive cavalcade of Archbishops and Bishops, Isaac Newton, John Wesley, Alfred Tennyson and others. Includes chapters on Humberside, Wolds, Woodlands, Fens, Cathedral, sport, dialect, settlements.

BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY The County Books, JOHN BYGOT, Lincolnshire, geology, geography, Archbishops, Bishops, Isaac Newton, John Wesley, Alfred Tennyson, Humberside, Wolds, Woodlands, Fens, Cathedral, sport, dialect, settlements, first edition dustwrapper Topography