THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY AND DIRECTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE; inclusive of some portions of the Ancient Histories of Rous, Camden, Speed, and Dugdale, with curious memoirs of the lives of these early writers;
by WEST, Wm
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No DJ
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Birmimgham: R. Wrighton. Good/No DJ. 1830. Hard Cover. Lge 8vo No map. Green cloth with paper title label on spine, loss to all edges. Previous owner's book plate on f. paste down. A small amount of foxing mainly to margins. A description of the present state of the county with its modern divisions and subdivisions and their population and valuation; a Directory of every town and considerable village in the county; a Gazetteer of all the towns, villages, parishes and hamlets, with their distances from the principal Market or Post Towns, and from London; and an itinerary of the direct and cross roads, With a list of the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats. Illustrated with characteristic etchings. xiii, [1], 800pp. Seven engraved views; twenty-nine advertisements, two of which are folding, and one coloured. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 120942
- Title
- THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY AND DIRECTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE; inclusive of some portions of the Ancient Histories of Rous, Camden, Speed, and Dugdale, with curious memoirs of the lives of these early writers;
- Author
- WEST, Wm
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/No DJ
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- R. Wrighton
- Place of Publication
- Birmimgham
- Date Published
- 1830
- Keywords
- Biography, History, Rare, Books, Antiquarian
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ELY, Cambridgeshire
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