Ducatus Leodiensis, or, The topography of the ancient and populous towns and parish of Leedes, and parts adjacent, in the West-Riding of the county of York... extracted from records, original evidences, and manuscripts
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Type of record: Book
Title: Ducatus Leodiensis, or, The topography of the ancient and populous towns and parish of Leedes, and parts adjacent, in the West-Riding of the county of York... extracted from records, original evidences, and manuscripts
Other titles: Topography of the ancient and populous towns and parish of Leedes
Classmark: BC Misc. Quartos/THO
Creator(s): Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725)
Additional creator(s): Whitaker, Thomas Dunham (1759-1821) (Other)
Related people: Whitaker, Thomas Dunham
Publisher: Printed by B. Dewhirst, for Robinson, son, and Holdsworth; and John Hurst, Wakefield
Publication city: Leeds
Date(s): 1816
Language: English
Size and medium: [3], xvi, [1], xvii, [1], 261 (i. e. 268)p., [2], 123 p., 159p., 11, [1] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/218750
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991011497969705181
Description
Paging irregular: p. 162, 268 numbered 151, 261, respectively; no. 87-88, 140-142, 144 omitted; no. 119-120 in appendix repeated.
Issued as a companion to T. D. Whittaker's Loidis and Elmete (1816). Boyne says that the two works form "what is commonly called the 'History of Leeds'".
Additional description
2 vols. in 1. Volume has spine title: "Thoresby's History of Leeds. I, II". Includes "Loidis and Elmete"; with separate t.p
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