A new pocket companion for Oxford: : or, Guide through the University; containing an accurate description of the public edifices, the buildings in each of the colleges; the gardens, statues, pictures, hieroglyphics, and all other curiosities in the University. With an historical account of the foundation of the several colleges and their present state. To which are added descriptions of the buildings, tapestry, paintings, sculpture, temples, gardens, &c. at Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, and Nuneham, the seats of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Dillon, and the Earls of Shrewsbury, and Harcourt
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Type of record: Book
Title: A new pocket companion for Oxford: : or, Guide through the University; containing an accurate description of the public edifices, the buildings in each of the colleges; the gardens, statues, pictures, hieroglyphics, and all other curiosities in the University. With an historical account of the foundation of the several colleges and their present state. To which are added descriptions of the buildings, tapestry, paintings, sculpture, temples, gardens, &c. at Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, and Nuneham, the seats of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Dillon, and the Earls of Shrewsbury, and Harcourt
Classmark: Bedford Collection G021
Additional creator(s): Cooke, J (Bookseller); Collingwood, Samuel (1841) (Printer); Basire, James (1769-1822) (Engraver); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Printed for J. Cooke, near the Clarendon Printing-House
Publication city: Oxford
Date(s): 1803
Language: English
Size and medium: [4], 163, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates (1 folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/732327
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019958097605181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Colophon: [Printed by S. Collingwood, Oxford.].
Plan engraved by James Basire.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G021: excerpt from sale catalogue for this item, no. 87.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G021: recent paper over boards, printed label with title on front cover.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G021: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: TPT/2.
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