The history of Manchester

The history of Manchester

Full title: The history of Manchester : In four books / By John Whitaker, B. D., F.S.A. and Fellow of C.C.C. Oxford.

John Whitaker, 1735-1808

[London] : Sold by Mess. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, White and Lowndes in Fleet-Street, Payne at the Mews-Gate, Cadell in the Strand, Davis in Holbourn, Baker and Leigh in York-street Covent-Garden, and Brotherton and Sewell on Cornhill; by Parker at Oxford, and the Merrils at Cambridge; and by Newton, Clarke, and Harrop at Manchester

MDCCLXXI-MDCCLXXV [1771-1775]

2 volumes, plates (some folded) : maps ; 26 cm (4°)

Volume 2 dated 1775 and with imprint reading: "London, printed for Joseph Johnson, N⁰ 72, in St. Paul's Church Yard. And J. Murray, N⁰ 32, Fleet-Street, opposite St. Dunstan's Church."

Half-title to volume 1: 'The history of Manchester, book the first, containing the Roman and Roman-British period.'.

Half-title to volume 2: 'The history of Manchester, book the second, containing the Saxon period.'.

No more published.

Part (v.2) printed by William Bowyer and John Nichols; their records show 500 copies printed; entered at 14 September 1774.

Presented by Principal Daniel Woolf [Gift2015]

Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.) donor
Schulich-Woolf Collection.

English

DA690.M4 W57
ESTC (RLIN), T145509