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Anecdotes of the manners and customs of London during the eighteenth century : including the charities, depravities, dresses, and amusements, of the citizens of London, during that period; with a review of the state of society in 1807 ; to which is added, a sketch of the domestic architecture and of the various improvements in the metropolis ; illustrated by forty-five engravings (Vol 2)

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A684

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Type of record: Book

Title: Anecdotes of the manners and customs of London during the eighteenth century : including the charities, depravities, dresses, and amusements, of the citizens of London, during that period; with a review of the state of society in 1807 ; to which is added, a sketch of the domestic architecture and of the various improvements in the metropolis ; illustrated by forty-five engravings (Vol 2)

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A684

Creator(s): Malcolm, James Peller (1767-1815)

Additional creator(s): Malcolm, James Peller (1767-1815) (Ill); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); J. Nichols and Son, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London (Printer); Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme (Publisher)

Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1810

Language: English

Size and medium: 2 volumes, 50 unnumbered leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729406

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019882056705181

Description

Supplementary to the author's "Anecdotes of the manners and customs of London from the Roman invasion to the year 1700."


Includes indexes.

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A684: contemporary half calf, gold tooled on spine, marbled paper over boards.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A684: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HL/165 (2). Late nineteenth/early twentieth-century? pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: Ex Libris, rural scene with wheat, flowers and a book, no name.

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