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The Isle of Man Guide for 1839, containing an historical sketch, and descriptive views of the island. Illustrated with a map and plates. Fifth thousand

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection G020

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Type of record: Book

Title: The Isle of Man Guide for 1839, containing an historical sketch, and descriptive views of the island. Illustrated with a map and plates. Fifth thousand

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection G020

Creator(s): Haining, Samuel

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Dalton, Pattinson? (Former owner); Charles Thurnam, Carlisle (Bookseller)

Publisher: Published and sold by William Dillon, North Quay; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London; Cummings, Dublin; Bancks and Co., Manchester; Benjamin Smith, South Castle-Street, and H. Lacey, Bold-Street, Liverpool

Publication city: Douglas

Date(s): [1839]

Language: English

Size and medium: iii, 201 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/732316

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019957197505181

Description

The “Prefatory remarks” signed: S. H., i.e. Samuel Haining.


Smith and Gawthorpe, printers, Liverpool.


Bedford Collection G020 copy: map detached. Advertisements on rear flyleaf for Crescent Academy, near Douglas, Isle of Man.

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G020: contemporary green cloth, paper label with title on spine.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G020: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: TD/91. Bookseller's book label on front pastedown: Sold by C. Thurnam Carlisle. MS. inscription on front flyleaf: Pattinson? Dalton? 1847.

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