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

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

Full title: Observations on the antiquities historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall. : Consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, Druid-superstition, customs, and remains of the most remote antiquity, in Britain, and the British Isles: exemplify'd and prov'd by monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, faithfully drawn on the spot, and engrav'd according to their scales annex'd. With a summary of the religious, civil, and military state of Cornwall before the Norman conquest; illustrated by the plans and elevations of several ancient castles, an eastern view of the monastery and site of St. Michael's Mount: and a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language. / By William Borlase, A.M. F.R.S. rector of Ludgvan.

Binder's spine title: Borlase's Antiquities of Cornwall

William Borlase, 1695-1772

Oxford : Printed by W. Jackson, in the High-street

MDCCLIV [1754]

xvi, 413, [1] p., [25] leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 36 cm.

"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."

Errata: [1] p. at end.

Errors in pagination: 271 as 217.

The plates are numbered in one sequence, but some are on separate leaves and some are printed onto the letterpress pages as illustrations.

Includes bibliographical references.

Library copy has signatures of T. J. Wallis on fly leaf and title page, and of W. H. Dixon, Ju 1894 on title page.

Presented by Principal Daniel Woolf [Gift2015]

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

English

folio DA670.C8 B7 1754
ESTC, T131270