Ducatus Leodiensis:. or, the topography of the ancient and populous town and parish of Leedes, and parts adjacent in the West-Riding of the county of York. With The Pedegrees of many of the Nobility and Gentry, and other Matters relating to those Parts; Extracted from Records, Original Evidences, and Manuscripts. By Ralph Thoresby, F. R. S. To which is added, at the Request of several Learned Persons, A Catalogue of his Musaeum, with the Curiosities Natural and Artificial, and the Antiquities; particularly the Roman, British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Scotch Coins, with Modern Medals. Also A Catalogue of Manuscripts; the various Editions of the Bible, and of Books Published in the Infancy of the Art of Printing. With An Account of some unusual Accidents that have attended some Persons, attempted after the Method of Dr. Plot.
Thoresby, Ralph, 1658-1725
Category
Books
Date
1715
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3260415
Summary
Bibliographic description
iv,[2],v-xxii,4,5-6,5-108,109-114,109-268,[3],276-628.[12]p.,plates : ill.,port.,maps ;. fol. Running number: 1461. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front endleaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys], with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "Α-ε¹" [i.e. alpha-epsilon¹ = Greek numbers 1-5¹]. Frontispiece recto inscribed: "E Libri Nathᶩ Hough. In Legasii Whitbeo. Heald Nepoti. 1715. pr. 1£.3.0" [i.e. Nathaniel Hough, Adm. pens, at Jesus, July 4, 1690. Fellow, 1703-9. R. of St George's, Southwark, 1715-37. R. of Newington, Surrey, i73i-7. Died 1737. {Al. Oxon.; A. Gray); Whitby Heald, fellow St. John's Coll., Cambridge (cf. alumni oxonienses)]. Eighteenth-century bookseller's code at head of lower pastedown. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled and plain calf over boards, blind tooled to a Cambridge-panel design; gilt roll pattern along board edges; six raised bands, gilt tooled spine and gilt title on leather label; six supports laced in; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Thoresby, Ralph, 1658-1725, author