Including the Borough Towns of Wycombe and Marlow and Sixteen Parishes
The History and the Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough and the Deanery of Wycombe in Buckinghamshire Including the Borough Towns of Wycombe and Marlow and Sixteen Parishes
Printed for R. Faulder, New Bond Street and B. and J.White, Fleet Street, 1797.
First edition. 4to. Half brown morocco over grey papered boards by the W.H. Smith bindery (blind stamped on the rear endpapers) to a design by Douglas Cockerell. Raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine, rules in blind and punched gilt dots along the sides. Top edge gilt. Fold out pedigrees of the Borlase and Goodwin families and 2 printed illustrations. Wanting fold-out map. Printed title, preface and list of subscribers, have been supplied in manuscript (likely by W.F.D.Smith) on Greenlands letter paper. Copious annotations in other hands in ink and in pencil particularly to the Turville and Hambleden sections.
Langley (1769 - 1801) was curate to Bradenham and Taplow from 1793 and became a keen collector of the antiquities of Buckinghamshire. However his literary work, The Hundred of Desborough, although full of poetical descriptions was sadly lacking in scholarly method [DNB]. The annotations in this copy seem to have been made by a local historian of a more scholarly bent.
Chapters covering the parishes of High Wycombe, Great Marlow, Bradenham, Fawley, Fingest, Hambleden, Hedsor, Hitchenden, Ipstone, Little Marlow, Medmenham, Radnage, Sanderton, Turville, West Wycombe, Morton and Wooburn.
Greenlands is the Thameside estate bought by the second W.H.Smith in 1868 which remained the Smith family home until moving to Hambleden Manor in 1946. It is now the Henley Management College.
PROVENANCE: Library of the W.H. Smith family, Viscounts of Hambleden. Bookplate of the 3rd Viscount to front pastedown.
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