FIRST EDITION - with additional letterpress titles 'An History of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain' and dedications to George III and Horace Walpole, 2 folding engraved maps of the Thames by John Cooke, lacking engraved frontispiece of the head of Father Thames but with 76 hand-coloured aquatint views, 3 folding, some light foxing, and water-staining, mostly marginal but more severe foxing to one or two leaves and water-staining affecting some plates and leaves (particularly in vol.2), offsetting to the second map, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, boards with large double gilt ruled diamond with corner pieces, top edge gilt, a little rubbed and marked, re-backed with elaborately gilt spines with four gilt-ruled raised bands. This work intended to make this history one of a series, beginning with the rivers Thames and Forth. The project was abandoned after this work. A most popular and most spectacular work on the River Thames. Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. 1. Frontispiece. Thames Head. 2. Bridge in Kemble Meadow. 3. Ewen Mill. 4. Cirencester. 5. Cricklade. 6. Junction of the Thames and Canal near Lechlade. 7. Buscot- Park. 8. Stanton Harcourt. 9. Langley Ware. 10. Blenheim (distant view). 11. Blenheim (front on view). 12. View at Blenheim. 13. Oxford. 14. View of High Street in Oxford. 15. View in Broad Street in Oxford. 16. View from Nuneham towards Oxford. 17. View of Carfax & Abingdon from Whiteheads Oak. 18. View of Nuneham from the Wood. 19. View of Abingdon from Nuneham Park. 20. Wallingford. 21. Streatley & Goring. 22. View towards Bassilden from Streatley Hill. 23. Whitchurch. 24. Hardwick & Maple-Durham. 25. Pamgborn & Whitchurch from Purley. 26. View of Reading from Caversham. 27. Henley. 28. Scene at Park Place, including the Druid's Temple. 29. Fawley Court & Henley. 30. Culham Court. 31. The Windings of the Thames below Culham. 32. Temple & Harleford. 33. Bisham Abbey. 34. Court Garden and Great Marlow. 35. Great Marlow. 36. Hedsor Lodge looking towards Maidenhead. 37. Cliefden. 38. View of Winsdor from Clewer. 39. Windsor Bridge. 40. Windsor and Eaton. 41. Eaton. 42. View of Windsor Castle from Coopers-hill. 43. View of Chertsey Bridge from Wooburn Farm. 44. View of Walton Bridge from Oatlands. 45. The late Mr. Garrick's Villa. 46. Hampton Court. Volume 2. 47. Frontispiece. Strawberry Hill. 48. Pope's House. 49. View of Richmond Hill from Twickenham. 50. From Richmond Hill up the River. 51. From Richmond Hill Down the River. 52. Richmond. 53. View of Sion House from Kew Gardens. 54. Putney Bridge. 55. Battersea, Chelsea & London from Mr. Rucker's Villa. 56. View of Chelsea & Battersea from East Wandsworth. 57. View up the River from Millbank. 58. View of Lambeth from Millbank. 59. View of London from Lambeth (folding). 60. View of Black Fryers Bridge from Sommerset Place. 61. View of Somerset Place the Adelphi &c, from the Temple garden. 62. London Bridge. 63. The Tower. 64. View of Greenwich from Deptford Yard. 65. View of Greenwich and down the River. 66. View of London from Greenwich Park (folding). 67. View of Greenwich & up the River. 68. Woolwich. 69. View of Purfleet, Erith, and Long-Reach. 70. Gravesend. 71. Penshurst. 72. Tunbridge Castle. 73. Maidstone. 74. Rochester Bridge and Castle. 75. Rochester and Chatham (folding). 76. View from Upnor towards Sheerness.