Folio. [2], 10pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further six engraved plates. Bound by Carss of Glasgow in contemporary gilt-stamped brick-red morocco. Extremities rubbed and soiled. Armorial bookplate of Robert Harington to FEP, internally clean and crisp.

The first separate edition of topographer and antiquary Thomas Dunham Whitaker's (1759-1821) succinct history of the parish of Cartmel, Lancashire (now within the administrative county of Cumbria); originally published as a part of the third edition of his a monumental history of the parish of Whalley (1818).