Pigot and Co.'s National commercial directory, . comprising a classification of the merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers and traders; and lists of the nobility, gentry and clergy; resident in the cities, towns, seaports, and principal villages in the counties of Derby, Hereford, Leicester, Lincoln, Monmouth, Nottingham, Rutland, Salop, Stafford, Warwick and Worcester; and also of those in north and south Wales. With historical & descriptive sketches of each county, town & village; table of distances - post-office regulations, and an account of the various modes of conveyance connected with the several places, by land and water, for travellers and merchandise. Also lists of the London & provincial bankers, and the houses the latter draw upon; and of all the newspapers of the United Kingdom, with their days of publication; besides a variety of other useful information, of a local and general character. The embellishments comprise a map of each of the above-named counties, and a new large map of north and south Wales, the whole engraved on steel.
James Pigot & Co
Category
Books
Date
1835
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3051670
Summary
Bibliographic description
796;[20];[34]p. . 4to.. Provenance: Bookplate: George Harry Grey (1765-1845) after 1819; anonymous armorial. Not in Franks, not in Viner.. Binding: Nineteenth-century diced calf binding; gold-tooled spine.
Makers and roles
James Pigot & Co