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A historical tour through Pembrokeshire

Title vignette.

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

Includes index.

Order of plates and Errata follow index.

Tags: 19th century, antiquities, church buildings, engraved illustrations, history, illustrated, map, natural history, travel, Wales, Woolf gift

A journey from London to the Isle of Wight

Running title, v. 2: From Dover to the Land's-End.
The narrative of a tour from the Isle of Wight to Land's End was projected, but apparently not published. -- cf. Adv., v. 2, p. [v] at front.
Advertisement: [2] pages at end of volume 2.

A topographical, ecclesiastical, and natural history of [Wiltshire]

The Wiltshire section of Cox's Magna Britannia et Hibernia, antiqua & nova, 6 vols. 1720-1731, with a printed titlepage supplied at a much later date.

Dated from internal evidence: "Dr. Benj. Hoadley was translated from Bangor hither, and is now…

Tags: 18th century, church buildings, engraved illustrations, history, illustrated, map, natural history, Schulich gift, Woolf gift

An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk

Title of volumes 1-2 in red and black; volumes 4-5 paged continuously. The first 2 volumes and part of volume 3 appeared in numbers.

Volume 1 has errata on page 808; volume 2 has errata on page 913; volume 3 has errata on page viii.

Volume 3…

Tags: 18th century, antiquities, church buildings, England, engraved illustrations, folio, history, illustrated, Norfolk, Schulich gift

An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex which are not described in the "Environs of London"

Title page is engraved.

The title is taken from the etched title-plate. This is a supplement to Lysons' "The environs of London ..." (London, 1792-1796; No.1977). A further supplement was published in 1811 (No.1979).

Index of arms: p.…

Tags: 19th century, antiquities, church buildings, England, engraved illustrations, history, home counties, illustrated, London, map, quarto, travel, Woolf gift

British curiosities in art and nature

Tags: 18th century, antiquities, church buildings, duodecimo, England, engraved illustrations, Great Britain, history, illustrated, monuments, natural history, numismatics, Roman Britain, Wales, Woolf gift

Eboracum

Vol. 2 has separate title page: Book the second; contains the history of the Cathedral Church of York : with the lives of the Archbishops of that See, &c. : also the History of the Abbey of St. Mary in that City, from the foundation to its…

Tags: 18th century, antiquities, Christianity, church buildings, England, engraved illustrations, folio, history, illustrated, map, Roman Britain, Woolf gift, York

History and Antiquities of St. Saviour's, Southwark

Tags: 18th century, Christianity, church buildings, engraved illustrations, history, illustrated, London, octavo, Woolf gift

History of the city and county of Lichfield, &c.

Written by John Jackson, who signed the dedication (p. [3] at front). Cf. ESTC; BLC.

Date from ESTC.

Dedication signed and dated: John Jackson, Jun., Lichfield, July 9, 1795.

Page [1] at end blank.

Title-page has printer's device…

Tags: 18th century, biography, church buildings, England, history, octavo, Samuel Johnson, Woolf gift

Monasticon Anglicanum

With an engraved half-title.
The titlepage is in red and black.
Includes index.

Tags: 18th century, abbeys, church buildings, folio, Great Britain, monasteries, rare books

Monasticon Eboracense: and the ecclesiastical history of Yorkshire.

Numerous errors in paging.

At foot of p.448: "The end of the first volume"; no more published.

'Proposals for printing by subscription, Monasticon Eboracense' were issued in [1757?]

An appendix was issued in 1759.

With a list of…

Tags: 18th century, church buildings, England, engraved illustrations, folio, history, illustrated, map, religion, Woolf gift, Yorkshire

Notitia monastica

Imprimatur on verso of title leaf dated: Martii 13, 1694/5.

Includes: "An alphabeticall index of all the monasteries and other places mentioned in the Notitia monastica" on p. [1]-[19] at end, and "An index of the sirnames of founders of…

Tags: 17th century, Christianity, church buildings, Great Britain, history, monasteries, Wales, Woolf gift

Notitia parliamentaria

Includes half-title page.

Volume 1 only is of the second edition, with additions ;
Volume 2 is a reissue of the first edition of 1716.

Vol. 1 printed by William Bowyer; his records show 500 copies printed.

Tags: 18th century, antiquities, church buildings, cities and towns, England, government, Great Britain, history, law, nobility, royalty, Wales

Notitia Parliamentaria

A supplement to "Notitia Parliamentaria: or, An history of the counties, cities and boroughs ..." published in 2 vols. in 1715-16.

Head- and tail- pieces; printed marginalia.

With an index of M.P.s.