A General Account of all the Rivers of Note in Great Britain; with their Several Courses, their Peculiar Characters, the Countries through which they flow, and the entire Sea Coast of our Island; concluding with a minute Description of the Thames, and its auxiliary Streams.

Bookseller Notes

An attractive copy of Skrine's riverine classic. Henry Skrine (17551803) was the eldest son of a landowner: 'his inherited wealth enabled him to spend his time chiefly in travelling as a 'rational' entertainment, and recording his descriptions of both urban and rural Britain [...] Writing for a general audience rather than the specialist topographer or antiquarian, Skrine proved a shrewd observer, providing a well-written commentary on the state of the country through which he journeyed. His treatise on rivers was his final published work, and includes a particularly fine folding frontispiece of Thamesis with his trident.