[NELSON, JOHN]. The History of the Parish of Islington, in the County of Middlesex: Including Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent and Remarkable Inhabitants, With Some Account of Several Objects of Interest in the Adjoining Parishes. London: Printed for and sold by the author, Middle Row Place, Holborn; K. J. Ford, Bookseller, 117, Upper Street, Islington; Rodwell and Martin, New Bond Street; and John Major, Fleet Street, 1823.
SECOND EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (22 x 13.5 x 3 cm); pp. [2], ii, 357, [16, index], [1, list of plates]. English text. Bound in contemporary full calf; marbled page edges and endpapers; twenty-three engraved plates, including a folding map at the front; printed footnotes; rear index. Condition: GOOD. Collated complete. Binding secure, with slight rubbing and fading to covers. Interior well-preserved, offsetting to the plates, the map with two short tears to the folds. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown.
Notes: A seminal work of local British history written by John Nelson and first published in 1811. The book is noted for capturing Islington at a critical turning point - just as it transitioned from a rural, idyllic village of agricultural workers and historic inns into a densely populated suburb of late-Georgian London.
