Robson's commercial directory of London and the Western Counties, viz. Berks, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloster, Hereford, Somerset, Monmouth and South Wales, an alphabetical list of the names, residences, and professions of the commercial establishments in the above counties: a classification of trades to all market towns therein, with every information connected with the arrival and departure of mails and other coaches, posting houses, commerical inns, &c &c Accompanied by an historical and statistical display of the area in statute acres, the annual value therof, as assessed to the Property Tax in 1815; the annual income of the beneficed clergy, as returned to parliament in 1834; with a beautifully engraved map of each of the counties on which is delineated the new divisions or parochial unions, formed under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 3 & 4 William IV 1834. In two volumes - Vol. I containing London Directory (vol 1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Robson's commercial directory of London and the Western Counties, viz. Berks, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloster, Hereford, Somerset, Monmouth and South Wales, an alphabetical list of the names, residences, and professions of the commercial establishments in the above counties: a classification of trades to all market towns therein, with every information connected with the arrival and departure of mails and other coaches, posting houses, commerical inns, &c &c Accompanied by an historical and statistical display of the area in statute acres, the annual value therof, as assessed to the Property Tax in 1815; the annual income of the beneficed clergy, as returned to parliament in 1834; with a beautifully engraved map of each of the counties on which is delineated the new divisions or parochial unions, formed under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 3 & 4 William IV 1834. In two volumes - Vol. I containing London Directory (vol 1)
Classmark: Bedford Collection A020
Additional creator(s): Robson, William A (1895-1980) (Publisher); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Jones, Louis (Former owner)
Publisher: William Robson & CO. London Directory and Court Guide Office, 4, Cloak Lane, Cheapside; sold by Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. Stationers' Court... and Houlston and Hughes, Strand. Richard Clay, Printer, Bread Street Hill, London
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1840
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 vols; [4],1072 pages, 90 advertisements
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/719808
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019751549005181
Description
Vol I contains London street key, London commercial directory, itineraries. Vol II Gloucestershire to Worcestershire, North Wales and South Wales [Bedford copy lacking many folding maps].
Indexed in: JE Norton, Guide to directories
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A020 [vol. II]: loose excerpt from sale catalogue; loose note in John Bedford's hand about a reference to CW Leonard, agents to Blackie & Son, Publishers in this item.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A020 [vols I & II]: nineteenth-century publisher's cloth binding
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A020 [vol I & II]: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedowns: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: TD/61 [vol. I] and TD/49 [vol. II]. MS. inscription on front flyleaf and front cover of vol. II: Lewis Jones Castle Foregate Shrewsbury. MS. annotations on pages 6 to 13 of the Shrewsbury directory in vol. II.
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