Author: Duncumb, John.
Title: COLLECTIONS TOWARDS THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF HEREFORD Hereford Printed by E.G. Wright ... 1804-12. 2 vols. bound in 3. 4to. Half title present to vol. 1. Title page vignettes, 7 maps and plans including 3 hand coloured in outine of which 2 are double page, 8 plates, 2 ports. [Lacking frontis. as per Upcott of Clifford Castle but supplied in photocopy as well as Additions and Corrigenda]. One or two closed marginal tears, occasional sporadic light browning, vols. 1 and 2 part 1 bound together in contemporary half calf with marbled boards, corners sl. rubbed, some sl. surface loss to marbled paper, joints rubbed with sm. split to head of upper joint of vol. 2 and lower joint to vol. 1. cracked, spines rubbed with sm. portion lacking to head of spine of vol. 1., vol. 2. part 2 bound in cloth with light dampstaining. [With] COLLECTIONS ... In Continuation of Duncumb’s History. Vol. III [Hundred of Greytree] by William Henry Cooke. London John murray ... 1882. 4to. Map frontis. Title page device, 3 plates, 8 ills. [With] COLLECTIONS ... Vol. IV. 2 parts bound in 1 vol. Hundred of Grimsworth. Part I. By William Henry Cooke. London: John Murray ... 1886. 4to. T.p. vignettes. [And]. COLLECTIONS ... Hundred of Grimsworth Part II. 1892. Title page vignette, 1 original etched plate. [With] COLLECTIONS ... Vol. 5. 2 parts bound in 1. Hundred of Huntington by the Rev. Morgan G. Watkins. Hereford Jakeman & Carver ... 1897. 4to. T.p. device, 2 plates. [Bound with] Hundred of Radlow by the Rev. Morgan G. Watkins. Hereford Jakeman & Carver ... 1902. T.p. device, 2 plates. [With] COLLECTIONS ... Vol. VI. 2 parts bound in 1. 4to. Hundred of Wormelow (Upper Divison Part 1) Hereford: Jakeman & Carver 1912. T.p. vignette [And] Hundred of Wormelow (Upper Divison Part II). By John Hobson Matthews. Hereford: Jakeman and Carver ... 1913. [With] COLLECTIONS Vol. VII. 2 parts bound in 1 vol. Hundred of Wormelow (Lower Division Part I) By John Hobson Matthews. Hereford Jakeman & Carver ... 1913. 4to. T.p. vignette. Silked tear to t.p., and last leaf. [And] COLLECTIONS ... Hundred of Wormelow (Lower Divison Part II). By John Hobson Matthews. Hereford Jakeman & Carver ... 1915. Title page vignette.
Description: , Together 8 vols. 4to. Some minor sporadic browning, generally clean, occasional chipping to fore-edge, occasional closed tears, vols. 1 & 2 as described, vols. 3 onwards in uniform cloth, some light dampstaining mainly affecting extremities, spines browned with minor chipping, vol. 5 sun faded to upper board, minor marking. ¶ Ex.-libris Douglas Heber Hill Grainger & Cecil George Savile Foljambe Cecil George Savile Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool, PC (1846–1907), known as The Lord Hawkesbury between 1893 and 1905, British Liberal politician. Upcott 321. As per Upcott except that Upcott makes no mention of Volume II Part II. According to B.M. catalogue ‘pp.319-358 were printed but not published until the sheets were purchased by Thomas Thorpe Bookseller in 1837. He then issued them with together with an index with the copies of Volume 2 in his possession. John Duncumb (1765–1839), topographer. ‘... In 1780 Duncumb was engaged by Charles, eleventh Duke of Norfolk, the owner of extensive estates in the county, to compile and edit a history of Herefordshire. The terms were £2 2s. per week for collecting materials, the resulting work being the property of the duke. The first volume, containing a general history of the county and account of the city, was published in 1804; and the first part of a second volume, containing the hundreds of Broxash and Ewyas-Lacy, with a few pages of Greytree Hundred, in 1812. At the death of the duke in December 1815 payments ceased and Duncumb stopped work. The unsold portions of the work, with the pages of Greytree hundred then printed but not published, since they were part of the duke's personal estate, were taken from Hereford to London, where the parcels remained in a warehouse until 1837. The whole stock was then purchased by Thomas Thorpe, the bookseller, who disposed of his copies of the first and second volumes, with the section on Greytree, to which he appended an index. The second volume was completed with an index in 1866 by Judge W. H. Cooke, who issued a third volume, containing the remainder of Greytree, in 1882 and volume 7, covering the parishes in the hundred of Grimsworth, in 1892. Subsequently, volume 4, edited by the Revd Morgan G. Watkins, appeared in 1897, covering Huntington and Radlow hundreds. Volumes 5 and 6 appeared in 1912 and 1913 respectively, compiled by John H. Matthews and covering Wormelow hundred ...’

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