Wrightson's new triennial directory of Birmingham, including an alphabetical list of the merchants, tradesmen and respectable inhabitants of the town, the different trades arranged under their own particular heads, and the departures and arrivals of the various mails, coaches, waggons, boats, and every other conveyance / embellished with plates engraved purposely for this work. Embellished with plates, engraved purposely for this work
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Type of record: Book
Title: Wrightson's new triennial directory of Birmingham, including an alphabetical list of the merchants, tradesmen and respectable inhabitants of the town, the different trades arranged under their own particular heads, and the departures and arrivals of the various mails, coaches, waggons, boats, and every other conveyance / embellished with plates engraved purposely for this work. Embellished with plates, engraved purposely for this work
Classmark: Bedford Collection A005
Creator(s): Wrightson, Robert (1807-1850)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Jones, George (Former owner)
Publisher: printed and published by R. Wrightson, at his stamp office, 7, New-Street, and sold by all booksellers in town and country
Publication city: Birmingham
Date(s): 1818
Language: English
Size and medium: 4[2], 198 pages [2]
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/719217
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019745149805181
Description
Engraved plates include trade cards.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A005: rebound quarter calf, cloth over boards
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A005: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: TD/18. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on title page: Geor[ge] Jones [i.e. possibly George Jones of Phoenix Foundry, Snowhill, see p. 73].
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