Topography, Derby & Derbyshire – Anon. [William Hobson], The...

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Topography, Derby & Derbyshire – Anon. [William Hobson], The History and Topography of Ashbourne and the Valley of the Dove and Additional Villages, Ashbourne, Dawson & Hodgson & London, Simpkin & Co. 1839 8vo 380pp 22 lithographic engravings by & after Samuel Rayner, original marbled boards and rubbed leather spine; Bagshaw (Samuel) History, Gazetteer, Directory and History of Derbyshire with the Town of Burton-upon-Trent in One Volume with a coloured sheet map of the County, Sheffield, William Saxton, 1846, 8vo 702pp, map missing, inscribed Moses Harvey 1846, modern rebinding half leather, green boards (2)

** Moses Harvey (1798-1866) inherited a paper making business at Darley Abbey from his father and was also a partner with the Evans family in their cotton spinning mills there. Educated at Repton, he lived at Mickleover House (thus appearing in the directory)