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The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury plain, restored

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Printer suggested by colophon to the collection.
Title in red and black within line border; head and tail pieces; initials.
The frontpiece is a portrait of Inigo Jones, from a painting by Van Dyck.
Each of the three parts has special title page…

History of Winchester

Title page - vol. 1
Dedication dated: Sept. 2, 1772.

Sometimes erroneously attributed to Thomas Warton.

Errors in paging, v. 2: 252 numbered 225; 265-268 omitted.

Also available as: Microfilm. - Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1986. - 1 reel ;…

History and antiquities of Durham

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Engraved title page, with vignette.

First edition, 1785-94.

Contains numerous pedigrees.

A biographical sketch of John Egerton, bp. of Durham, by Francis H. Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater: v. 3, p. iii-xiii.

Imprint varies: v. 3,…

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 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.

An history of the original parish of Whalley, and Honor of Clitheroe, in the counties of Lancaster and York

Photo of title page to book V.
Folded leaves of genealogical tables included in pagination and registration. In two parts. Part II has a separate titlepage dated 1801. With a list of subscribers. Title page to book V has the author statement "By Thomas Dunham Whitaker, LL.D." and…

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…

Posthumous works of the learned Sir Thomas Browne, kt. M.D. late of Norwich

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"Miscellanies," "Repertorium" and "Antiquitates capellae" have each a separate titlepage, pagination and register; each part of the 'Miscellanies' has separate pagination and register.

'Miscellanies' includes 'An account of Island, alias…

The history and antiquities of Staffordshire

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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…

A historical tour through Pembrokeshire

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Title vignette.

Appendix (75 p.) consists of documents and letters.

Includes index.

Order of plates and Errata follow index.