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The history, topography and directory of Warwickshire; inclusive of some portions of the ancient histories of Rous, Camden, Speed, and Dugdale, with curious memoirs of the lives of these early writers : a description of the present state of the county with its modern divisions and subdivisions, and their population and valuation; a directory of every town and considerable village in the county; a gazetteer of all the towns, villages, parishes and hamlets, with their distances from the principal market or post towns, and from London; and an itinerary of the direct and cross roads, with a list of the noblemen and gentlemen's seats, illustrated with characteristic etchings and a map of the county

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A017

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Type of record: Book

Title: The history, topography and directory of Warwickshire; inclusive of some portions of the ancient histories of Rous, Camden, Speed, and Dugdale, with curious memoirs of the lives of these early writers : a description of the present state of the county with its modern divisions and subdivisions, and their population and valuation; a directory of every town and considerable village in the county; a gazetteer of all the towns, villages, parishes and hamlets, with their distances from the principal market or post towns, and from London; and an itinerary of the direct and cross roads, with a list of the noblemen and gentlemen's seats, illustrated with characteristic etchings and a map of the county

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A017

Creator(s): West, William 1770-1854

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: printed and published by R. Wrightson, Athenaeum, New-Street; and sold by Baldwin and Cradock, and Hurst, Chance and Co. London

Publication city: Birmingham

Date(s): 1830

Language: English

Size and medium: xiii, 800 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/719663

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019751349705181

Description

Indexed in: Norton

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A017: loose photocopied extract from sale catalogue describing a collection of trade directories, histories, maps and plans of Birmingham and Sheffield, 1777-1876, including this item, and comprising 28 volumes of trade directories and 6 histories [purchased by John Bedford].


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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A017: red morocco, marbled paper over boards, gold tooled, rebound in Sept 1975 university binder £10.20 [see endpaper]; contemporary loose cloth spine.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A017: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: TD/25.

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