The chorographical description or survey of the county of Devon. / By Tristram Risdon. Printed from a genuine copy of the original manuscript; with considerable additions.
Tristram Risdon (1580-1640)
Category
Books
Date
1811
Materials
Place of origin
Plymouth
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3030403
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 22, [16], xxxvi, [2], 442 p. ; 4to. Pencil “579” on front pastedown. The 22 p., plus the [16] p. table of gentlemans seats are bound between pp. 432-3. Uniformly bound and shelved with John Prince’s “… Worthies of Devon. …” (1810). Provenance: no marks of provenance. Binding: nineteenth-century polished sheep over boards on five recessed cords, gilt spine tooling, brown spine label, single gilt roll on covers, gilt roll on board edges, olive-green sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Tristram Risdon (1580-1640), author