HUTTON, William. An History of Brimingham to the End of the Year 1780. Birmingham: for Pearson and Rollason, 1781. First edition, 8vo (218 x 133mm.) 8 engraved plates including 1 extra-illustration being a folding plate of St. Philip’s Church. (Lacking several plates including the folding map, marginal loss to title, minor soiling, browning and finger-marks to several leaves, contemporary marginal annotation, the folding plate hand-stitched in.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Edward Walker, Birmingham (ink name inscribed to front pastedown, dated 1795). – And a further eleven volumes (including F.O. Morris’s ‘A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland’, 6 vols., [1880], 4to, and Charles Knight’s [publisher] ‘The Land We Live In, A Pictorial and Literary Sketch-Book of the British Empire’, 4 vols., [1848-1850], 8vo, and another copy of William Hutton’s ‘An History of Birmingham’, 1795, 8vo) (12).