Author: Gibson, Matthew.
Title: A VIEW OF THE ANCIENT AND PRESENT STATE OF THE CHURCHES OF DOOR, HOME-LACY, AND HEMPSTED; Endow’d by the Right Honourable John, Lord Viscount Scudamore. With Some Memoirs of that Ancient Family; and An Appendix of Records and Letters relating to the same Subject.
Description: London, Printed by W. Bowyer, for R. Williamson ..., 1727. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. [viii] + 238pp. Dec. initial letters and headpieces, folding plate. Title page lightly stained, contemporary panelled speckled calf, minor wear to boards, firm joints starting to crack at head, gilt lettered title label to spine with sm. nick to head of lower joint. ¶ Upcott 325. Gibson was a correspondent of Thomas Hearne. ESTC T94741 ‘With a half-title [our half title bound in after dedication] The appendix has a separate titlepage. Bowyer’s records show 300 copies printed. Signatures: [A]4 B-2H4 (-2H4). Signatures from Maslen & Lancaster. p.48 misnumbered 34. Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer Ledgers, 1294.’

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