THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF ROCHESTER AND ITS ENVIRONS: To which is added, a Description of the Towns, Villages, Gentlemen's Seats, and Ancient Buildings, Situate on, or near the Road from London to Margate, Deal, and Dover. Embellished with Copper-Plates

[SHRUBSOLE, WILLIAM and DENNE, SAMUEL, edited by FISHER, THOMAS].

Verlag: Printed and sold by T. Fisher; sold also by S. Crowder, Bookseller, in Pater-Noster Row, London., Rochester, 1772

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo, in fours. 4.5 x 7 inches. xiv + 353 pp. + [1] errata. Separate half title for Description. Irregularities in pagination resulting from cancel pages, as described by ESTC. List of subscribers. Bound in original half-calf over marbled boards; spine rebacked with raised bands, decorated gilt and blind stamping, with contrasting black morocco title label, gilt. Original extremities worn but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by folding engraved plan of Rochester, 5 other copper-engraved plates and by one engraving in text. This work was said to have been started by William Shrubsole (1729-1797), an independent minister and mast maker of Sheerness, born in Sandwich. It was, however, substantially written and completed by Samuel Denne (1730-1799). He was educated at King's School, Canterbury and Cambridge and was appointed vicar of Wilmington and Darenth, near Dartford, in 1767. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1783. An enlarged second edition was published by W. Wildash, Mr Fisher's successor as bookseller in Rochester, in 1817. KENT ROCHESTER NORTH KENT HISTORY ANTIQUITIES TOWNS- 18TH CENTURY KENT ESTC T63426 (but stated to be 12mo). Smith, p.275. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 23936

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Titel: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF ROCHESTER AND...

Verlag: Printed and sold by T. Fisher; sold also by S. Crowder, Bookseller, in Pater-Noster Row, London., Rochester

Erscheinungsdatum: 1772