THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE. IN THREE VOLUMES.

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Book Description
1797, 1793, 1806, Exeter, printed by Trewman and Son, for Cadell, Johnson, and Dilly, London, folio, three volumes in one, pp xii, 329, (iv), ii, (ii), 382, (ii), 383-504, (i), engraved folding map after John Cary, 24 full-page copper plate engravings, extra-illustrated with a steel-engraved portrait of Polwhele, and some manuscript notes bound in towards the end, full calf by Hayday, gilt rules in compartments on the spine, lettered in gilt, gilt ruled boards, elaborate gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers.
Author The Reverend Richard Polwhele, of Polwhele in Cornwall, and late of Christ-Church, Oxford.
Date 1797, 1793, 1806
Binding full calf by Hayday, gilt rules in compartments on the spine, lettered in gilt, gilt ruled boards, elaborate gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers
Publisher Exeter, printed by Trewman and Son, for Cadell, Johnson, and Dilly, London
Condition Some repair work on the spine, but a very handsome and clean copy.
Pages 329, 382, 383-504
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