• Reference
    X254/88
  • Title
    Extra illustrated 'Lyson's Bedfordshire'.
  • Date free text
    1600-1900
  • Production date
    From: 1600 To: 1900
  • Scope and Content
    Originally the book had been bound up into a larger scrapbook [20½" x 12½"] containing one 'scrap leaf' per page. Into this many extra prints, photographs, drawings, maps, and watercolours had been pasted or slipped in. At a later date the majority of these were removed from the book and are now listed as numbers X 254/88/1 onwards. Those remaining in the book are given the appropriate 'Lyson's' page number below: p i Map of Bedfordshire: published by J. Murray 1787 Map of Bedfordshire: published by Walpoole 1784 p ii Map of Bedfordshire: drawn by G. Cole; engraved by J. Roper; published by Vernon & Hood 1804 p v Map of Bedfordshire: by Blome c.1681 Map of Bedfordshire: by Keer c.1620 Map of Bedfordshire: mapmaker not known, very similar to Keer early C17th Map of Bedfordshire: published by T. Badeslade & W.H. Toms 1741 Map of Bedfordshire: mapmaker not known later C18th? p vi Short guidebook description of Bedfordshire C18th? Map of Bedfordshire: S.I.Neel, sculpt; published by Cadell & Davies 1806 Map of Bedfordshire: by Moule c.1837 p 21 Map of Bedfordshire: by Aiken 1795 p 43 Map of Bedford: drawn by G. Cole; engraved by J. Roper; under the direction of E.W. Brayley; published by Vernon, Hood & Sharpe 1807 Map of Bedford: drawn copy of Speed's 1610 map (amateurish). p 50 Bedford Borough arms. p 54 Plan of estate owned by the Bedford Charity in Holborn, Middx. "W.F." 1813 p 101 Arms of John Cater of Kempston. p 106 Arms of John and Sir Anthony Chester of Chicheley & Lidlington. p 108 Arms of the Napier family of Luton Hoo. p 122 Arms of the Alston family of Odell. p 129 Arms of John Paine of Colesden Grange, Roxton. p 152 Arms of the Dukes of Bedford of Woburn Abbey.
  • Reference
  • Level of description
    sub-fonds