Author: Price, John.
Title: AN HISTORICAL & TOPOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF LEOMINSTER, and Its Vicinity; With an Appendix.
Description: Ludlow: Printed and Sold by H. Procter ..., 1795. 1st Ed. [x] + 273pp. Tinted frontis. (lightly stained at gutter hinge) and 5 tinted plates [only, lacking folding plate], additional View of Marden Church affixed to verso of t.p. Ex.-libris J.J. Reynolds, later half morocco with cloth boards, gilt tooled raised bands with gilt lettering to spine. ¶ Upcott 324. ESTC T68758. John Price (1773–1801), topographer, was born at Leominster, Herefordshire. He gave lessons there in French, Latin, Italian, and Spanish. Subsequently he became a bookseller at Hereford, but finally settled at Worcester. He occasionally made walking tours on the continent. The above was his first topographical publication.

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; ENGLAND


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