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The history and antiquities of the county of Surrey
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The history and antiquities of the county of Surrey; comp. from the best and most authentic historians, valuable records, and manuscripts in the public offices and libraries, and in private hands. With a fac simile copy of Domesday, engraved on thirteen plates. By the late Rev. Owen Manning ... Continued to the present time by William Bray ...
Published
London, Printed for J. White, by J. Nichols and son, 1804-1814.
Physical Description
3 v. illus., pl. incl. 2 front., port., fold. maps, plans, facsim. fold. geneal. tab. 45 cm.
Notes
Paging irregular.
The "Fac simile copy of Domesday" (v. 1, 8 l., 13 pl. after introd.) has special t.-p. (on verso): "Sudrie comitatus descriptio; e libro censuali Gulielmi Conquestoris, vulgo vocato Domesday book, apographice desumpta ... MDCCLXXIII. The fac-similes and Latin text face each other.
The mss. for the history of Surrey were entrusted, after Manning's death, to William Bray, who published them, with large additions and a continuation. cf. Dict. nat. biog.
"Catalogue of books relating to this county": v. 3, p. 683-702.
Horace Walpole epitaph for Robert Wood (v. 3, p. 289) is apparently the first printing. Cf. MS. letter Horace Walpole to Mrs. Wood, 16 May 1773 in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
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English
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June 01, 2002
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Armorial bookplates (Provenance).
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