BEATTIE, William. The Castles and Abbeys of England. London and New York: George Virtue, [circa 1850.] 2 vols., second series, 4to (277 x 183mm.) Titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, 38 steel-engraved plates. (Mild toning.) Near contemporary blue half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, foliate gilt to four spine compartments, brown and red morocco lettering pieces to the rest, t.e.g. (lightly rubbed extremities). Provenance: L. Bartlett (bookplates to front pastedowns). – And a further six volumes (including ‘A General History of the County of Norfolk Intended to Convey all the Information of a Norfolk Tour’, 2 vols., 1829, 8vo, and Gilbert Abbott A’Beckett’s ‘The Comic History of England’, illustrated by John Leech, 2 vols., 1847-1848, 8vo) (8).