Author: Hargrove, Wm.
Title: HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF YORK; Comprising all the Most Interesting Already Published in Drake’s Eboracum; Enriched With Much Entirely New Matter, From Other Authentic Sources ...
Description: York: Published and Sold by Wm. Alexander ... Baldwin, Craddock, and Co., 1818. 1st Ed. 2 vols. in 3 parts, bound in 3 vols. 407pp. + [ii] + [iv] + iv + 688pp. + [iii]. 7 copper plates, 25 wood engravings including 3 full page, folding hand coloured plan. Some light browning and foxing, marbled e.ps., marbled e.ps., contemporary marbled calf, intricate blind tooling to edges of boards, some loss to corners, rebacked with original spines laid down, joints repaired to vol. 2. part 1., intricate gilt tooled motifs with gilt lettered labels to spines, some loss across head of spines. ¶ Handwritten presentation slip tipped into front of volume 1. ‘W & A Alexander love & request their dear relatives ... acceptance of a little remembrance of York ... 25 4/1820.’ D.N.B. ‘William Hargrove (1788-1862) historian of York. Comprising all the most interesting information already published in Drake's Eboracum, with much new matter and illustrations.

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; ENGLAND


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