TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, CIRCA 1816

[COOKE, GEORGE ALEXANDER; COOKE, CHARLES].  Topographical and statistical description of the County of Lancaster. containing an account of its situation, mines, agriculture, extent, minerals, fairs, towns, fisheries, markets, roads, manufactures, curiosities, rivers, trade, antiquities, lakes, commerce, natural history, civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions, &c. To which is prefixed, a copious travelling index; exhibiting, at one view, the direct and principal cross roads, inns and distance of stages, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats. Forming a complete county itinerary. The whole interspersed with a variety of information, entertaining to the general reader; highly beneficial to the agriculturist, trader, and manufacturer; and particularly interesting to the traveller, speculatist, antiquary, and to every inhabitant of the county.  London: printed for C. Cooke, no. 17, Paternoster Row, by Brimmer & Co. Water Lane, Fleet Street, and sold by all the booksellers in the United Kingdom, n.d. [between 1779 and 1816].

Hardcover. Leather-bound. Small format, 12mo (145 x 90 mm.), pp. 322, [2 - errata & contents]: frontispiece (folded map).  Bound in contemporary half calf, smooth spine gilt. Marbled boards and endpapers. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Rebacked retaining the original spine, new endpapers. Slight rubbing to boards and extremities. Contents toned. Scarce.

Notes: Produced by George Alexander Cooke, editor of the Universal system of geography. Illustrated with a small map of the County. This apparently formed part of a 47 vol. set with the title: The modern British traveller: or, Tourist's pocket directory. Likely originally published by C. Cooke in the first quarter of the 19th century.  The same set also published under the title: Topography of Great Britain: or, British traveller's directory. Each volume a stand-alone book with a separate title-page.