The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquity & historye, armorye, and geneal...
The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquity & historye, armorye, and genealogy / written by William Burton ... ...
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London : Printed [by William Jaggard] for Iohn White at the holy lambe in litle Brittaine neare vnto Aldersgate Street, [1622]
London : Printed [by William Jaggard] for Iohn White at the holy lambe in litle Brittaine neare vnto Aldersgate Street, [1622]
Date
[1622]
Call Numbers
RB/DQ942.54/1
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English
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[10], 193, 192-196 [i.e. 198], 201-320, [12] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : coats of arms, geneal. tables, folded map ; 29 cm. (fol.)
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
London : Printed [by William Jaggard] for Iohn White at the holy lambe in litle Brittaine neare vnto Aldersgate Street, [1622]
London : Printed [by William Jaggard] for Iohn White at the holy lambe in litle Brittaine neare vnto Aldersgate Street, [1622]
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England
Date Published
[1622]
[1622]
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The description of Leicester Shire : containing matters of antiquity & historye, armorye, and genealogy / written by William Burton ... ...
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Engraved title page.
Includes index.
Printer’s name from STC; "To the reader" dated 30 Oct. 1622.
Page 198 misnumbered: 196.
Folded plate is a map of Leicestershire with the legend: Lecestriæ comitatus. Siue Leicestershyre: pars olim Coritanorum. Signed: Christophorum Saxton descrip: William Kip sculp:.
Rare Books copy: Acquired Dec. 1872 by the Public Library of New South Wales. Inscribed on p. [10] of first sequence in 17th-century hand: The Lady Elizabeth Pooell; an Elizabeth Pooell is recorded as having married in Rothwell in 1694. Annotated in 17th-century hand throughout. Some heraldic shields hand-coloured. Portrait of William Burton pasted...
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STC (2nd ed.), 4179
ESTC, S107138
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RB/DQ942.54/1
Record Identifier
74VKJ7JolExZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKJ7JolExZ
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DDC
942.54
MMS ID
991022149129702626
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