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The history and antiquities of the ancient town of Leicester, with, Select views In Leicestershire from original drawings:, with, The supplementary volume to the Leicestershire views
by Throsby, John
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Leicester: J. Brown, for the Author. Good. 1791. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Leicester: Clean hardback tightly rebound in brown half leather over marbled boards, gilt titles and decoration and bands at the spine, new endpapers, page edges rough cut, no inscriptions. 12½" x 9½"; vi + 420 pages, 47 plates, extensive footnotes, index missing - a photocopy of the index is laid in. Select views in Leicestershire from original drawings: containing seats of the nobility and gentry, town views and ruins, accompanied with descriptive and historical relations: Undated, clean hardback tightly rebound in brown leather, gilt titles on red leather label, 5 raised bands, new endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, foxing on plates, remains of tissue guards on some plates. viii + 354 pages, subscribers list, index. The supplementary volume to the Leicestershire views containing a series of excursions in the year 1790, to the villages and places of note in the county: published in 1790, clean hardback, rebound in brown leather, front board pulled, gilt titles on red leather label, 5 raised bands, new endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, page edges rough cut. 536 pages, map frontispiece, subscribers list, index. Heavy set, weighs over 10 kilos, so additional postage will be requested .
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- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68910
- Title
- The history and antiquities of the ancient town of Leicester, with, Select views In Leicestershire from original drawings:, with, The supplementary volume to the Leicestershire views
- Author
- Throsby, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- J. Brown, for the Author
- Place of Publication
- Leicester
- Date Published
- 1791
- Keywords
- Leicester, Local History, Hinckley, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Market Bosworth, Oakham
- Bookseller catalogs
- History / British;
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