An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk, : containing a description of the towns, villages, and hamlets, with the foundations of the monastries, churches, chapels, chantries, and other religious buildings ... likewise, an historical account of the castles, seats, and manors, their present and ancient owners; together with the ... relicks of antiquity. Collected out of ledger-books, registers, records, evidences, deeds, court-rolls, and other authentick memorials. / By Francis Blomefield, ...
Francis Blomefield (1705-1752)
Category
Books
Date
1805 - 1810
Materials
Place of origin
Norwich
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3123746
Summary
Bibliographic description
11 v. : ill., coats of arms, facsim., geneal. tables, map, plans, ports. ; 4to. Large paper copy. Pencil marginal annotations in vol. 3 (pp. 132 and 180). Occasional pencil marks in margin in vol. 9. Bookseller's pencil note and code on front free endpaper in vol. 1: "11 vols - LP £12" and "e/b/. ["b" is crossed through, replaced with "d"]. Ephemera: scrap of paper used as a marker in vol. 3. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full polished calf; sewn onto five recessed cords; four false bands; spines lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Blomefield's history of Norfolk', 'Vol. 1[-11].' and list of places included in each vol.; marbled bookblock edges and endpapers; purple ribbon marker in each vol. (wanting in vols. 1, 3, 7 and 11).
Makers and roles
Francis Blomefield (1705-1752), author Charles Parkin (1689-1765), author