The history of imbanking and draining of divers fens and marshes, : both in foreign parts and in this kingdom, and of the improvements thereby. Extracted from records, manuscripts, and other authentic testimonies. By William Dugdale, ...
Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686)
Category
Books
Date
1772
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3078159
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 469, [1] p., [11] plates (folding) : maps ; fol. Multiple newspaper cuttings [many from Cambridge Chronicle] and extracts from handbills relating to the general election in Huntington in 1807, in which Lord Hinchingbrook and William H. Fellowes were returned, and on other contemporary events pasted to front board and throughout text. These cuttings are occasionally commented on in manuscript [see for example: pp. 414-415]. Also annotated occasionally throughout in a later hand. Eighteenth-century partial manuscript contents on rear pastedown. Provenance: Eighteenth-century inscription pasted to front pastedown: M. John Flett Somersham. Binding: Eighteenth-century full calf; single gilt roll to form a border; rebacked; original spine label retained.
Makers and roles
Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686), author Charles Nalson Cole (1723-1804), editor