Birmingham : history and general directory of the borough of Birmingham, with the remainder of the parish of Aston, the Soho and part of Handsworth included: being part of a general history and directory of the County of Warwick.... / by Francis White and Co
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Type of record: Book
Title: Birmingham : history and general directory of the borough of Birmingham, with the remainder of the parish of Aston, the Soho and part of Handsworth included: being part of a general history and directory of the County of Warwick.... / by Francis White and Co
Classmark: Bedford Collection A003
Creator(s): Francis White and Company
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Folkes, Homery J (Former owner); Williams (Former owner)
Publisher: printed for the authors, by John Blurton, Royal Steam-Press Offices, Castle Street and King Street, And sold by F. White and Co., 54, Hermitage Street, Sheffield
Publication city: Sheffield
Date(s): 1849
Language: English
Size and medium: viii, 404, 54 [advertisements] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/719114
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019741446205181
Description
Title page: Price to subscribers, 9s. in cloth boards, or 11s. in calf binding; Non-subs. 2s. 6d. extra.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A003: re-backed, contemporary cloth boards.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A003: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: TD/31. MS. inscription on pastedown and verso of front flyleaf: J. H[omery?] Folkes 1928. Numerous nineteenth-century MS. notes of customer's addresses and payments on pastedowns and front flyleaf, for example: Mr Price 198 Trinity Road 2 chairs paid 2/6 to pay 6/6. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on first page in same hand as some of the pastedown notes: Williams 136 Rookery Road Roseberry Villa.
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