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A topographical and historical description of the county of York : containing an account of its towns, cathedral, castles, antiquities, churches, monuments, public edifices, picturesque scenery, the residences of the nobility, gentry, &c. accompanied with biographical notices of eminent and learned men to whom this county has given birth

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 295

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Type of record: Book

Title: A topographical and historical description of the county of York : containing an account of its towns, cathedral, castles, antiquities, churches, monuments, public edifices, picturesque scenery, the residences of the nobility, gentry, &c. accompanied with biographical notices of eminent and learned men to whom this county has given birth

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Classmark: Whitaker Collection 295

Creator(s): Bigland, John (1750-1832)

Publisher: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones [et al]

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1819?]

Language: English

Size and medium: viii, 938 pages, 20 unnumbered pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298619

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003917529705181

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Added t.-p. engr., dated 1819.


Maps by Neele.


"A list of... books, maps, &c ... relative to the topography and antiquities of Yorkshire": p. [932]-938.


A separate issue, with new t.-p., of a part of v. 16 of The beauties of England and Wales.


Whitaker suggests date [1830] for Brotherton Library copy. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 118.


Indexed in: Whitaker, Harold (ed.) A descriptive list of the printed maps of Yorkshire and its ridings, 1577-1900. The Yorkshire Archaeological Society record series Vol. LXXXVI for the year 1933. Leeds, 1971 Map 389.

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