An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York : from their first foundation to the present year : illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c
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Type of record: Book
Title: An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York : from their first foundation to the present year : illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c
Classmark: YAS 1921
Creator(s): Hildyard, John (1757)
Additional creator(s): Dart, John (1730) (Other); Drake, Francis (1695-1770) (Other)
Related people: Dart, John; Drake, Francis
Publisher: Printed for W. Sandby, bookseller, in Fleet-Street; and sold by J. Hildyard, bookseller, in York
Publication city: London
Date(s): MDCCLV [1755]
Language: English
Size and medium: [4], 144, [4] p., [91] leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/502181
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012061609705181
Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Description
The plates are the same as those in John Dart's "History and antiquities of the cathedral church of Canterbury" and Francis Drake's "Eboracum," and the descriptions are abridgments of the same works. -- cf. Brit. Mus. Catalogue.
There is no plate numbered 50. Pp. 92 and 126 are wrongly numbered 86 and 122, respectively. "Number of all the copperplates" inserted following the first index. The second sequence of pages 134 ff. (sign. L1-Nn) includes additional matter on pp. 143-144.
Anon., by John Hildyard.
Additional description
Quarter bound in calf leather; marbled paper-covered boards. Black leather label on spine lettered: 'Hist. of Canter. & York'. With the label of M.F. Middelton on front pastedown and the stamp of W. Middelton 1825 on flyleaf
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