New Birmingham Directory; containing an alphabetical list of the merchants, manufacturers, and principal inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood; the mails, coaches, vans, waggons, carriers, & canal conveyances; a classification of trades, also the principal manufacturers, &c. in Bilston, Darlaston, Dudley, Halesowen, Kidderminster, Redditch, Stourbridge, Walsall, Wednesbury, West Bromwich, Willenhall & Wolverhampton; a list of bankers in England, Wales and Scotland and the houses on which they draw in London. Stamp duties; fire offices; population tables, &c
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Type of record: Book
Title: New Birmingham Directory; containing an alphabetical list of the merchants, manufacturers, and principal inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood; the mails, coaches, vans, waggons, carriers, & canal conveyances; a classification of trades, also the principal manufacturers, &c. in Bilston, Darlaston, Dudley, Halesowen, Kidderminster, Redditch, Stourbridge, Walsall, Wednesbury, West Bromwich, Willenhall & Wolverhampton; a list of bankers in England, Wales and Scotland and the houses on which they draw in London. Stamp duties; fire offices; population tables, &c
Other titles: Ward and Price's new Birmingham directory
Classmark: Bedford Collection A015
Publication city: Birmingham : printed by Ward and Price, 61 and 62 Loveday Street; and published by J. Butterworth, T
Date(s): 1823
Language: English
Size and medium: [2] 6, 188, 72 [2] pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/719630
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019748449205181
Description
Engraved plates include trade cards.
Plates engraved by T Radclyffe, L Thomson and others.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A015: re-backed, quarter calf, cloth.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A015: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on rear pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: TD/21.
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