The history and antiquities of Staffordshire
Title
The history and antiquities of Staffordshire
Alternative Title
Full title: The history and antiquities of Staffordshire : compiled from the manuscripts of Huntbach, Loxdale, Bishop Lyttelton, and other collections of Dr. Wilkes. The Rev. T. Feilde, &c. &c. including Erdeswick's Survey of the county; and the approved parts of Dr. Plot's Natural history : the whole brought down to the present time ; interspersed with pedigrees and anecdotes of families; observations on agriculture, commerce, mines, and manufactories and illustrated with a very full and correct new map of the county, agri staffordiensis icon, and numerous other plates / by the Rev. Stebbing Shaw, B.D. F.A.S. and fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge.
Creator
Stebbing Shaw
Publisher
London : Printed by and for J. Nichols, Red Lion-passage, Fleet-street. Sold also by J. Robson, New Bond-street; T. Payne, Mews-gate; J. White, Fleet-street; and all the principal booksellers in Staffordshire and the adjoining counties
Date
M.DCC.XCVIII. [1798]-1801.
Format
2 volumes : illustrations, 84 plates including 2 frontispieces, portrait, folded map, plans, facsimile genealogical table ; 46 cm
Description
To have been completed in three vols.; no more published.
Most of the plates are from drawings by the author.
Minor variations of title.
The 'Appendix to Burton-upon-Trent' with other appendixes in vol.1 has separate pagination and register; the 'Additions and corrections to the general history, &c. in vol.I.' and 'Appendix of additions and corrections to the parochial history, volume I. and II.' have separate pagination and register.
Most of the plates are from drawings by the author.
Minor variations of title.
The 'Appendix to Burton-upon-Trent' with other appendixes in vol.1 has separate pagination and register; the 'Additions and corrections to the general history, &c. in vol.I.' and 'Appendix of additions and corrections to the parochial history, volume I. and II.' have separate pagination and register.
Provenance
Presented by Principal Daniel Woolf [Gift2015]
Contributor
Schulich-Woolf Collection.
Language
English
Identifier
DA670.S7 .S53 flat folio
Collection
Citation
Stebbing Shaw, “The history and antiquities of Staffordshire,” Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://schulichwoolf.omeka.net/items/show/243.