Monasticon Eboracense, and The ecclesiastical history of Yorkshire : containing an account of the first introduction and progress of Christianity in that diocese, untill the end of William the Conqueror's reign... Together with an account of such monuments and inscriptions as are worthy of notice ... to which is added, A scheme and proposals, in order to form a Society for compiling a complete civil and natural history of ... Yorkshire
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Title: Monasticon Eboracense, and The ecclesiastical history of Yorkshire : containing an account of the first introduction and progress of Christianity in that diocese, untill the end of William the Conqueror's reign... Together with an account of such monuments and inscriptions as are worthy of notice ... to which is added, A scheme and proposals, in order to form a Society for compiling a complete civil and natural history of ... Yorkshire
Other titles: Ecclesiastical history of Yorkshire
Classmark: YAS 1922
Creator(s): Burton, John (1710-1771)
Publisher: Printed for the author by N. Nickson
Publication city: York
Date(s): 1758
Language: English
Size and medium: xii, 448 pages, 35 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered folded leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/502173
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010492389705181
Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Description
The author intended a second volume but this was never published. cf. pref. and D.N.B.
"A list of subscribers": p. iiii.
Plate to face p.141 is bound opposite p.288; plate to face p.433 is bound opposite p.436.
Pagination errors: p.183 for 187; pp.221-224 for 225-229; p.556 for 356; p.560 fro 360; p.357 for 361; p.560 for 364; p.568 for 368; p.425 for 421; p.428 for 424; p.426 for 427.
"A scheme and proposals..." has a separate title-page.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Additional description
Full-bound in calf leather. Spine lettered: 'Monasticon Eboracense. Burton'. Armorial bookplate of Elizabeth Sophia Lawrence and bookplate of the Leeds Church Institute on front pastedown. With some further ownership inscriptions and annotations on front pastedown and flyleaf, and with the manuscript note on front pastedown: 'The materials for the 2d. volume of this work were sold to Wm. Constable Esq.r of Burton Constable in the year 1771 in whose or in his family's hands they probably remain. v: General Biographical Dictionary by Chalmers v[...] Burton. Handwritten on YAS bookplate: 'By gift. Leeds Church Institute. 30.3.71'
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