Author: Phillips, T
Title: The History And Antiquities Of Shrewsbury From Its Foundation To The Present Time : Containing A Recital Of Occurrences And Remarkable Events For Above Twelve Hundred Years ; With An Appendix Containing Several Particulars Relative To Castles, Monasteries, &C., In Shropshire
Description: printed & sold by T Wood, sold also by G Robinson, Bookseller, N°25 Pater Noster Row, London, 1779, 1st edition. Half calf over marbled boards, G+. 244+1pp (errata) +2pp publishers adverts, engraved frontis, 13 engraved plates, 1 folding chart, index, subscribers list at the front of the book, leather rubbed & a little worn along the edges with slight loss at the head of the spine,upepr hinge a little tender, title foxed & browned, offsetting from the plates to the text page opposite, the plates in fine order, over all a good copy. Ex Libris J Coster Edwards of Bryn Howell with his bookplate to the pastedown. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A well recieved History of Shropshire. Phillips work was "to a large extent based on the work of John Bowen, who had used material collected by his father, James Bowen, a herald painter and undertaker in Shrewsbury. Between 1732 and 1736 James Bowen had accompanied the historian William Mytton of Halston around Shropshire while Mytton was researching for his own proposed general history and survey of the county. Bowen had done the drawings for this unpublished work. The History remained the standard work on Shrewsbury until 1825" [ODNB]. The book contains much on the architecture of the county.

Keywords: shrewsbury, shropshire, salop, topography, history, architecture,