History, directory and gazetteer of the county of York : with select lists of the merchants & traders of London, and the principal commercial and manufacturing towns of England; and a variety of other commercial information: also a copious list of the seats of the nobility and gentry of Yorkshire (v.3)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: History, directory and gazetteer of the county of York : with select lists of the merchants & traders of London, and the principal commercial and manufacturing towns of England; and a variety of other commercial information: also a copious list of the seats of the nobility and gentry of Yorkshire (v.3)
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 289a
Creator(s): Baines, Edward (1774-1848)
Additional creator(s): Parson, William (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Denys, Sir George (1788-1857) (Former owner); Wood, James (Bookbinder)
Publisher: printed and published by Edward Baines, at the Leeds Mercury Office; and sold by Hurst and Robinson, 90, Cheapside, London, and all other booksellers
Publication city: [Leeds]
Date(s): 1822-23
Language: English
Size and medium: 3 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/230455
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012581469705181
Description
Contents: v.1. West Riding. -- v.2. East and North Ridings. -- v.[3]. Plans and maps.
Bedford Collection copy A669 vol 1 and 2 only.
Additional description
Maps of Leeds and the West Riding, and Table of Distances only. Lacks maps of York, Kingston upon Hull, Sheffield, and the East and North Ridings
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A669: contemporary calf, gold tooled on spine, decorated fore-edges.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A669: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: TD/5. Nineteenth-century printed book label on front pastedown: Sir George Denys [i.e. Sir George Denys, 1st Baronet (1788-1857), MP for Hull 1812-1818]. Nineteenth-century pink printed label: Jas, Wood Bookbinder, Leeds [i.e. James Wood, bookbinder, stationer, Kirkgate, Leeds, active 1816-1828].
Access and usage
Access
Access to this material is unrestricted.