Antiquarianism and Topography, Yorkshire - Whitaker (Thomas ...

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£60

Antiquarianism and Topography, Yorkshire - Whitaker (Thomas Dunham, LL.D., F.S.A.), The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County of York [...], second edition, London: J. Nichols and Son, 1812, printed on harlequin stocks of light-heavy paper and now with various degrees of foxing (heavy to some quires), speckling and typical off-setting, pp: vii, [1] (blank), 530, additional engraved architectural title-page, portrait frontispiece, 1 fold-out map, 51 full-page mixed media plates, 18 fold-out pedigrees, further in-text illustrations and pedigrees, mid-19th century red three-quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards (a trifle rubbed and chipped, recto pastedown gutter repaired & re-enforced with tape), all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, refreshed flyleaves, 4to, [1]

Provenance: 1) Alan Waterworth, his armorial bookplate engraved by Leo Wyatt and dated 1973 within the plate; 2) Clifford Stephenson, of Almondbury, Huddersfield, his pictorial bookplate,
dated June 1978 in ink MS; 3) Ex Libris George Edmonds, Lepton, Huddersfield, his pictorial bookplate, dated 1992 in ink MS.