Author: WHITE, WILLIAM (B. 1799)
Title: History, gazetteer and directory, of the West-Riding of Yorkshire : with the city of York and port of Hull [...] volume 1
Description: Sheffield : printed for the author. by Robert Leader.sold by W.White. Baines & Newsome. 1837. First Edition. Good copy bound in gilt-blocked full aniline calf. Spine bands slightly worn. with dulling and rubbing to the panel edges. as with age. Small tear evident at top of spine cover. Front hinge starting. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 780 pages; Physical description: 1v.: xi. 780p. ; 18cm. Subjects: Directories - York - 1837 - Geography - England - Yorkshire - 19th century. Notes: Includes advertisements after main text. Spine title: West Riding. volume 1. Full title: History. gazetteer and directory. of the West-Riding of Yorkshire : with the city of York and port of Hull; comprising. under a lucid arrangement of subjects. a general survey of the riding. and of the sees of York and Ripon; with separate historical. statistical. and topographical descriptions of all the boroughs. towns. parishes. chapelries. townships. villages. hamlets. manors. liberties and wapentakes; showing their extent and population; the rise and progress of their trade and commerce; their agricultural and mineral productions; their markets and fairs; the lords of the manors and owners of the soil and tithes; their eminent men; their churches. chapels. charities. and public institutions; the names and addresses of their principal inhabitants; the seats of nobility and gentry; magistrates and public officers; and a variety of other commercial. agricultural. and statistical infromation.Weight in Kg appr.:

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