Skip to main content

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)

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 289a

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)

Level: Item

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.

Collection hierarchy

Visitor Basket

Ref No. Item Ref Title