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New description of Blenheim, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough. Containing a full and accurate account of the paintings, tapestry, and furniture; a picturesque tour of the gardens and park; and every other circumstance connected with the subject, that can afford either information or entertainment. A new and improved edition. Embellished with an elegant plan of the park, &c

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection G074

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Type of record: Book

Title: New description of Blenheim, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough. Containing a full and accurate account of the paintings, tapestry, and furniture; a picturesque tour of the gardens and park; and every other circumstance connected with the subject, that can afford either information or entertainment. A new and improved edition. Embellished with an elegant plan of the park, &c

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection G074

Creator(s): Mavor, William Fordyce (1758-1837)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Related people: Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 1650-1722

Publisher: printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand; E. Newbery, St. Paul's Church Yard; and Jackson, Fletcher and Cooke, Oxford

Publication city: London

Date(s): MDCCXCIII. [1793]

Language: English

Size and medium: viii, [3], 12-138,[2]pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/736514

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019982996905181

Description

Anonymous. By William Fordyce Mavor.


With a half-title and a final leaf of advertisements.


Indexed in: Roscoe,


Indexed in: ESTC

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G074: excerpt from sale catalogue for this item pasted on front flyleaf.


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G074: original pink paper wrappers with printed title label on front cover [worn on spine].

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G074: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HSO/20.

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