The chorographical description, or, survey of the county of Devon, . with the city and county of Exeter. Containing matter of history, antiquity, chronlogy, the nature of the country, commodities, and government thereof: with sundry other things, worthy observation. Collected by the travail of Tristram Risdon, ....
Tristram Risdon (1580-1640)
Category
Books
Date
1714
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3040171
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],v-xiv,148,113-186,[12],34,4,[2],35-425,[1]p.,[2] plates . 8vo.. Former shelfmarks: Geog. Brit. 109 xC3; T.5.11. - Copy collates: [8], v-xiv, 186, [12], 34, 4 p., plate. - This means the copy is wanting the title page for the 'Continuation of the Survey of Devonshire' but retains its pp.1-34 which are continued in a separate volume at: Tt.5.21 [NT 097543]. Provenance: Armorial bookplate after 1754): Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754; also found in Wimpole books acquired by his successors].. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, blind-panelled, gold-decorated spine, red spine-label, gold-lettered.
Makers and roles
Tristram Risdon (1580-1640)