Author: GILLINGWATER (Edmund):
Title: An Historical and Descriptive Account of St. Edmund's Bury, In the County of Suffolk: Comprising an ample Detail of the Origin, Dissolution, and Venerable Remains of the Abbey, and Other Places of Antiquity in that Ancient Town.
Description: Saint Edmund's Bury: Printed by and for J. Rackham..., 1804. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 170 x 100 mms., pp. [3] - 8, 311 [312 blank], 3 engraved plates, uncut, contemporary half vellum, boards very soiled); lacks half-title, spine split and defective. Gillingwater (1736 - 1813) began life as a barber, then became a bookseller; upon his marriage to a wealthy widow, he retired from business to devote himself to topography and local history.

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