[Illingworth, Rev. Cayley]

A Topographical Account of the Parish of Scampton in the County of Lincoln, and of the Roman Antiquities lately discovered there; together with Anecdotes of the Family of Bolle

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London 1808 First Edition Signed by the author Engraved title with a large vignette of Parsonage House by Basire after Sophia Illingworth, frontispiece map and folding map (both partly hand-coloured), hand-coloured folding plate of the Roman mosaic pavement by William Fowler, large folding pedigree and arms of the Bolle family, 8 single page plates and engraved plan on p.19. 4to. [280 x 215 x 19 mm]. [1]f, 63pp. Bound in contemporary red goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a border of thick and thin fillets, a repeated double drawer-handle tool and a medallion in the corners, enclosing an outer panel of two fillets broken with intersecting gouges, and a large inner panel of a fillet with cornerpieces built up from small tools on a studded background. The spine divided into six gilt panels with double bands, lettered in the second panel, the others elaborately tooled on a studded background, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt fillet and the turn-ins and matching inside joints with gilt rolls and ornaments, light blue silk doublures and endleaves with a gilt thick and thin fillet border and a floral tool in the corners, gilt edges, blue silk marker. (The lower cover slightly faded and a few very minor marks). Martin, "Bibliographical Catalogue of Privately Printed Books", pp.177-8. Some offsetting from the plates but a fine copy. The binding is splendid and is very similar in design to a signed Staggemeier and Welcher binding on a copy of Burges's "The Birth and Triumph of Love", 1796, which was illustrated as item 11 in my catalogue 10. None of the tools are the same, though it could be the work of one of these two after they separated in about 1810. This is the first edition, with the preface dated 1st March 1808. Illingworth identifies himself as the author and states that "a few impressions only have been printed, to distribute amongst his literary friends". A second edition was published by Cadell and Davies in 1810, with variations (the text ends on p.65). Illingworth was Rector of Scampton and he offered this work as "his mite towards an History of his County". He had been involved in the excavation of the local Roman villa in 1795, and this brought him into contact with William Fowler, who contributed the fine hand-coloured plate of the pavement and supplied the drawing of the Monument of Sir John Bolle. The views of the Gateway to the Hall and the Church were engraved by Basire from the originals by Nattes. This copy is inscribed at the head of the preface "To Captain Thomas James Birch, 1st Life Guards from the Revd. Cayley Illingworth". The first letter of the inscription is slightly trimmed at the head, indicating that Birch probably had the book bound after it was given to him.

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