Topography, Derby & Derbyshire – Keys (John), ed. Gadd (Geor...

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Topography, Derby & Derbyshire – Keys (John), ed. Gadd (George Frederick), Sketches of Old Derby & Neighbourhood, Derby & London, Bemrose & Sons, 1895 4to 203pp 2 plates and a folding map of the town after John Speed (1610), likewise a foldout re-drawn east prospect of Derby by Bemrose 1863 after S & N Buck, 50 engravings by Orlando Jewitt and P(ercy) C(urrey) also engraved elevation of the 1841 Guildhall after Henry Duesbury facing p. 186, inscribed ‘Mrs Ward from J & F. H. Ward, Aug. 29th 1895’, original boards, green boards and printed paper outer cover; Robinson (J. B.), Derbyshire Gatherings, A Fund of Delight for the Antiquary, the Topographer, the Biographer and the General Reader, Derby, Bemrose & London, J. R. Smith, 1866, large 4to, 106 pp, numerous slightly gauche but charming engravings by the author, bound original Gothic gilt bevelled & embossed boards (2)

** Joseph Barlow Robinson (1821-1883) was a sculptor of national standing with his workshop on Derwent Street, Derby and home in Uttoxeter New Road there. After a family apprenticeship he worked extensively on the Palace of Westminster, and later locally, notably with architect Henry Isaac Stevens, carrying out country house and church commissions throughout the Midlands and beyond