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