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 pedigrees of many of the nobility and gentry, and other matters relating to those parts; extracted from records, original evidences, and manuscripts / By Ralph Thoresby. To which is added ... a catalogue of his museum ... 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.
Date:
1715
  • Books

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Also known as

Musaeum Thoresbyanum, or, A catalogue of the antiquities ... preserved in the repository of Ralph Thoresby ...
Musaeum Thoresbyanum
Ducatus leodiensis

Publication/Creation

London : Printed for Maurice Atkins, and sold by Edward Nutt, 1715.

Physical description

iv, 2 unnumbered pages, v-xxii, 4, 5-6, 5-108, 109-114, 109-268 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 276-628 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, coats of arms, tables, maps, portraits (engravings, woodcuts) ; 34 cm (folio)

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References note

ESTC, T100187
Boyne, W. The Yorkshire library (1869), 93.
ESTC T100187

Notes

List of subscribers: pp. xvii-xxii.
Errata: p. 628.
Index: final [12] pp.
Woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials.
The catalogue has separate title page, with title: Musaeum Thoresbyanum, or, A catalogue of the antiquities ... preserved in the repository of Ralph Thoresby ...
There is another 1715 issue with imprint "Printed for Maurice Atkins and sold by Henry Clements" and a royal paper issue with the Atkins/Nutt imprint.
The 2nd ed. (1816) of this work forms vol. 1 of what is commonly called the 'History of Leeds' (v. 2 being Loidis and Elmete by T.D. Whitaker)--Boyne, p. 79.
Upcott, W. A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography (1818), pp. 1381-3 describes the Atkins/Clements issue.
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: R. Clark. Note: Binding: Contemp. calf, rebacked in later calf. Red morocco spine label. Book label of Christ[ophe]r Beckett. T.p. ownership inscription of John Bertall [?].

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