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Bungay: Brightly & Childs, 1812. First Bungay edition, 4to, engraved title-page, pp. xxxiii, [1], 927, [2]; engraved frontispiece, 21 hand-colored maps (4 folding), 27 plates (of which one is hand-colored); full 20th-century leatherette, original spine label preserved; pages unevenly browned due to paper stock quality, else very good. Includes a number of miscellaneous articles, including those on the origin of alphabets, by the Abbot Anselm; a short essay on the origin and antiquity of the English tongue; an English grammar; and sections on the constitution, government and trade of England. Vancil, p. 18. (Inventory #: 44558) (truncated)