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Pigot and Co.'s national commercial directory : comprising a directory and classification of the merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers and traders in all the cities, towns, sea-ports, and prinicipal villages in the following counties, viz., Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, Monmouthshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Somersetshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire, and the whole of South Wales. With historical and topographical delineations, tables of the distances of the towns in every county, one from the other and each from London; the whole embellished with 18 elegant county maps

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A039

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Type of record: Book

Title: Pigot and Co.'s national commercial directory : comprising a directory and classification of the merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers and traders in all the cities, towns, sea-ports, and prinicipal villages in the following counties, viz., Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, Monmouthshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Somersetshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire, and the whole of South Wales. With historical and topographical delineations, tables of the distances of the towns in every county, one from the other and each from London; the whole embellished with 18 elegant county maps

Other titles: National commercial directory

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A039

Creator(s): J. Pigot & Co

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Chambers, William (1809-1882) (Former owner)

Publisher: published by J. Pigot and Co., 17, Basing-Lane, London, & 18, Fountain-Street, Manchester, and sold by them and the following booksellers, viz: Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers' Court, Ludgate Hill; Sherwood and Co., Paternoster-Row; Winchester and Varnha

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1830

Language: English

Size and medium: 865 pages, [52]

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/719867

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019759749205181

Description

Includes index.


No maps [in Bedford Collection A039 copy].


Bedford Collection C420 comprises only Monmouthshire, pages 513-526. Second general survey 1821-1830.


Includes advertisements at end of directory.

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Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A039: re-backed, contemporary publisher's calf binding, blind tooled, gold tooled on spine vol 3.


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C420: contemporary (20th century) grey paper wrappers with printed title label.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A039: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: TD/55. Third volume in 3 volume set owned by William Chambers (1809-1882).


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C420: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: TD/36.

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