DERBYSHIRE. JEWITT (Llewellynn). Chatsworth. Illustrated by upwards of Fifty Engravings.1872

Buxton: J. C. Bates, First edition, 8vo (210 x 160 mm), 87, [1]pp., wood-engraved illustrations in the text, orig. limp brown publishers cloth, title stamped in gilt on upper cover, preserved in a red morocco-backed slip-case, spine tooled in gilt. "Jewitt was vice-president of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society, and acted as honorary curator of the town and country museum at Derby... in 1860 he established a pioneering local antiquarian quarterly journal, The Reliquary... [he] was a prolific author of guidebooks and topographical works, especially on Derbyshire, from 1850s to the 1870s."—(DNB). Provenance: From the library of Josceline Grove, with bookplate and their typed catalogue description pasted to front endpapers. Holmes, p.66; Cooper II, p.74.