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The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Canterbury

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Dedication signed by the engraver, James Cole.

Pages lvii, lviii of the Appendix misnumbered lv, lvi. Pagination sequence includes numbered plates, most of which are printed and numbered on recto only. Pages numbered 33, 35- 36, 41, 44, 49, 54,…

The history and antiquities of the county of Somerset

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Map engraved by A. Crocker, dated: March 3, 1792.

Volume 1 includes list of subscribers. 'Proposals for printing by subscription, The history of the county of Somerset' were issued in October 1784. Volume 2, pages 97-104 incorrectly numbered…

The history and antiquities of the county of Essex

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Illustrated with copper plates.

Ordinary paper issue.

With a list of subscribers in volume 1.

Vol. 1 includes the author's History of Colchester (originally published as a separate work in 1748) with special title page.: The history and…

The history and antiquities of Essex

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Published in parts.
Text and register are continuous.
Bowyer's records show 500 copies printed.

Observations on the antiquities historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall.

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"List of subscribers": preliminary p. [viii]-ix.

"A catalogue of the Kings of Britain, with the Princes of Cornwall": pages [367]-373.

"A Cornish-English vocabulary": pages 376-413.

Plates signed: "W.B. delin. J. Green sculp."…

The ancient cathedral of Cornwall

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"S. Gosnell, printer, Little Queen Street, Holborn"--Title page verso.

Has half title page.

The antiquities of St. Peter's

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A reissue of the third edition, with different titlepages, and a postscript and 'A letter to the publisher of this edition' added to the end of volume 2.

Anonymous. By Jodocus Crull.

The 'letter to the publisher' has its own pagination and…

Peter Langtoft's chronicle

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The pagination and register are continuous, with a divisional titlepage to vol. 2.

With a list of subscribers and a final advertisement leaf.

With a swash 'r' in 'Oxford'.

The tracts, both by the same anonymous author, have caption…

The history and antiquities of the city of Bristol

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Dedication dated: Wraxal, April 15, 1789.

Frontispiece (folded map) dated: "Published according to Act of Parliament 29th. Sepr. 1780."

With a list of subscribers.

Page 228 misnumbered 128.

The history of the parishes of Whiteford and Holywell

Title page
Engraved title page.

In 2 parts, the second having separate, engraved title page: History of Holywell parish, and separate register; the pagination is almost continuous.

Errata on page 328.

Of "Appendix": The five royal tribes of Cambria…

The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland

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Compiled chiefly from the unpublished manuscripts of William Nicolson and others.

For errors in paging see Upcott.