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PHILLIPS, John : The Rivers, Mountains, and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire. With Essays on the Climate, Scenery and Ancient Inhabitants of the Country. FROM THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM SIDNEY GIBSON, THE ANTIQUARIAN, WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS TO COMPLIMENT THE WORK

1853

John Murray London. 1853. First edition. Frontis. + 34 plates, including one coloured map, with explanation of plates at rear. From the library of William Sidney Gibson, noted antiquarian of the North-East, with his armorial bookplate. Loosely inserted are copious handwritten notes and marginalia by Gibson plus relavant newspaper cuttings.The book has been recased with original spine laid down. New endpapers but bookplate has been also retained. Olive cloth gilt, sunned to spine and margins. Generally a clean and sound copy. Born at Parson's Green, Fulham, Gibson was for some years on the staff of a Carlisle newspaper. He entered Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar the society in 1843. The same year he was appointed registrar of the Newcastle upon Tyne district court of bankruptcy. Gibson retired in 1869 and concentrated on writing. He died at the Grosvenor Hotel, Belgravia London, 3 January 1871, and was interred in the disused burial-ground of the Old Priory, Tynemouth, by special permission. He was an honorary M.A. of Durham University, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and other learned societies.

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