Ducatus Leodiensis, or, The topography of the ancient and populous town and parish of Leedes, and parts adjacent in the West-Riding of the County of York. With the pedegrees of many of the nobility and gentry, and other matters relating to those parts; 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 town and parish of Leedes, and parts adjacent in the West-Riding of the County of York. With the pedegrees of many of the nobility and gentry, and other matters relating to those parts; extracted from records, original evidences, and manuscripts
Other titles: Topography of the ancient and populous town and parish of Leedes; Musæum Thoresbyanum; History of Leeds
Classmark: BC Yorkshire H-Lee-1 quarto THO
Creator(s): Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725)
Additional creator(s): Plot, Robert (1640-1696) (Other); Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725) (Other)
Publisher: Printed for Maurice Atkins, and sold by Edward Nutt at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleet-street
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1715
Language: English
Size and medium: iv, 2 unnumbered pages, v-xxii, 4, 5-6, 5-108, 109-114, 109-268 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 276-628 pages, 12 unnumbered pages; 14 unnumbered leaves of plates (part folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/433987
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004993159705181
Description
The duplicated page numbers (5-6 on B1; 109-114 on Ffp2s Gg1) are in square brackets.
The catalogue has separate title-page (following p.268): Musæum Thoresbyanum: or, A catalogue... London: Printed for Maurice Atkins, 1713.
There is another 1715 issue with imprint "Printed for Maurice Atkins and sold by Henry Clements" and a royal paper issue with the Atkins/Nutt imprint -- The 2nd ed. (1816) of 'Ducatus Leodiensis' forms v.1, the 'Loidis and Elmete' [by T. D. Whitaker, 1816], v.2 of what is commonly called the 'History of Leeds.' --Boyne.
Additional description
Armorial bookplate of John Stansfeld. Presentation inscription from Stansfeld to Walter J. Walker (1885). Name J. Faber, Bramley. Vellum binding
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