Lake District Collection

The Lake District Collection (LDC) provides access to more than 250 items of bibliographic information, annotations, samples of covers, text, and illustrations from first and rare editions of 18th and 19th century English Lake District travel and landscape books. Of particular bibliographic interest are the many period maps, excellent samples of engraving and illustration techniques and processes, including lithography, chromolithography and photography, as well as ornate bindings.

Contributed by Special Collections and Rare Books, Simon Fraser University Library.

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A Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, Illustrated with Twenty Views of Local Scenery, and A Travelling Map of the Adjacent Country

Date: 1819
Name(s): Robinson, John

A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire

Date: 1799
Name(s): West, Thomas

A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire

Date: 1821
Name(s): Pennington, W., West, Thomas

A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire

Date: 1802
Name(s): Pennington, W., West, Thomas

A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire

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Date: 1784
Name(s): Caldwell, James, Law, B., Pennington, W., Robson, J., West, Thomas

A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire

Date: 1789
Name(s): West, Thomas

A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire

Date: 1796
Name(s): West, Thomas

A History of Appleby

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Date: 1956
Name(s): Holdgate, Martin W.

A History of Westmorland

Date: 1894
Name(s): Ferguson, Richard Saul, 1837-1900

A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, with a Return Down the Rhine

Date: 1795
Name(s): Radcliffe, Ann

A New and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales

Date: 1792
Name(s): Paterson, Daniel

A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to the English Lake District

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Date: 1936

A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, Containing a Description of the Most Romantic Scenery of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, with Accounts of Antient and Modern Manners and Customs, and Elucidations of the History and Antiquities of that Part of the Country, &c. &c.

Date: 1821

A Reminiscence of Wordsworth Day, Cockermouth, April 7th, 1896

Date: 1896
Name(s): Davies, Llewelyn, Rawnsley, H. D. (Hardwicke Drummond), 1851-1920

A Six Months Tour through the North of England. Containing, An Account of the Present State of Agriculture, Manufactures and Population, in several Counties of this Kingdom...Interspersed With Descriptions of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and Other Remarkable Objects: Illustrated with Copper Plates of such Implements of Husbandry, as Deserved to be Generally Known, and Views of Some Picturesque Scenes, which Occured in the Course of the Journey : volume 3

Date: 1770
Name(s): Balfour, John, Collins, Benjamin, Nicoll, W. (William), active 1761-1792, Strahan, William, Young, Arthur, 1741-1820