Firma Burgi, or an Historical Essay concerning the Cities, towns and Buroughs of England, taken from Records, 1st edition, William Bowyer 1726, engraved title vignette, initials and head- and tailpieces, list of subscribers bound to rear, free endpapers browned, occasional mild soiling in top margins, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, rubbed and scuffed, folio (39 x 24 cm), together with: Darell (William), The History of Dover Castle, 2nd edition, Hooper and Wigstead, 1797, [bound with:] Grose, Francis, A Provincial Glossary ... a new edition, corrected, London, Edward Jeffery, 1811, Darell with engraved vignette title page, 8 plates, 1 folding plan, foxing, contemporary diced russia, rebacked and recornered retaining most of the original spine, gilt frames to sides enclosing blind Greek-key roll, craquelure, large 4to (33 x 23 cm); Pennant (Thomas), The Journey from Chester to London, 1st edition, 1782, 22 engraved plates, some spotting and offsetting, contemporary sprinkled calf, front joint cracked, 4to; Thomas (William), A Survey of the Cathedral-Church of Worcester, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London, 1737, title page printed in red and black, 9 engraved plates of which 2 folding, several full-page engravings to the letterpress, bookplate of George Kenyon of Peel (1666-1728), Tory politician, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spine, joints split but firm, 4to; Battely (John), Opera posthuma, viz. Antiquitates Rutupinae et Antiquitates S. Edmundi Burgi ad annum 1272 perductae, 1st edition thus, Oxford, 1745, 16 maps and plates of which 7 folding, engravings to the text, 20th-century quarter calf, and 3 others ; Upcott pp. xxiv, 424 (first edition), 71, 1342, 430. This second edition of Darell, though dated 1797, generally appears with Grose's Provincial Glossary (Jeffery, 1811), and Jeffery's advertisement for Grose's Antiquarian Repertory (1807-9) appears on the final page. Battely's work contains the second edition of his Antiquitates Rutupinae (Richborough), first published in 1711, and the first edition of his Antiquitates S. Edmundi Burgi (Bury St Edmunds). (9)
Firma Burgi, or an Historical Essay concerning the Cities, towns and Buroughs of England, taken from Records, 1st edition, William Bowyer 1726, engraved title vignette, initials and head- and tailpieces, list of subscribers bound to rear, free endpapers browned, occasional mild soiling in top margins, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, rubbed and scuffed, folio (39 x 24 cm), together with: Darell (William), The History of Dover Castle, 2nd edition, Hooper and Wigstead, 1797, [bound with:] Grose, Francis, A Provincial Glossary ... a new edition, corrected, London, Edward Jeffery, 1811, Darell with engraved vignette title page, 8 plates, 1 folding plan, foxing, contemporary diced russia, rebacked and recornered retaining most of the original spine, gilt frames to sides enclosing blind Greek-key roll, craquelure, large 4to (33 x 23 cm); Pennant (Thomas), The Journey from Chester to London, 1st edition, 1782, 22 engraved plates, some spotting and offsetting, contemporary sprinkled calf, front joint cracked, 4to; Thomas (William), A Survey of the Cathedral-Church of Worcester, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London, 1737, title page printed in red and black, 9 engraved plates of which 2 folding, several full-page engravings to the letterpress, bookplate of George Kenyon of Peel (1666-1728), Tory politician, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spine, joints split but firm, 4to; Battely (John), Opera posthuma, viz. Antiquitates Rutupinae et Antiquitates S. Edmundi Burgi ad annum 1272 perductae, 1st edition thus, Oxford, 1745, 16 maps and plates of which 7 folding, engravings to the text, 20th-century quarter calf, and 3 others ; Upcott pp. xxiv, 424 (first edition), 71, 1342, 430. This second edition of Darell, though dated 1797, generally appears with Grose's Provincial Glossary (Jeffery, 1811), and Jeffery's advertisement for Grose's Antiquarian Repertory (1807-9) appears on the final page. Battely's work contains the second edition of his Antiquitates Rutupinae (Richborough), first published in 1711, and the first edition of his Antiquitates S. Edmundi Burgi (Bury St Edmunds). (9)
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