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THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE. IN THREE VOLUMES.

Name: THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE. IN THREE VOLUMES.
Author: The Reverend Richard Polwhele, of Polwhele in Cornwall, and late of Christ-Church, Oxford.

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

Price: £1350.00

Offered by Graham York Rare Books

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