THE HISTORICAL ANTIQUITIES OF HERTFORDSHIRE: With the Original of Counties, Hundreds or Wapentakes, Boroughs, Corporations, Towns, Parishes, Villages, and Hamlets; the Foundation and Origin of Monasteries, Churches, Advowsons, Tythes, Rectories, Impropriations, and Vicarages, in General . . . etc.
Bishops Stortford: J. M. Mullinger, et al, 1826. Reprint of the 1700 first edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, large octavo, brown calf and boards with later rebacking, red and green morocco spine labels; xx, 502; (1), 614 pp. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece, folding county map, and 43 lithograph plates (38 are double-page). Text interleaved with a great many blanks, most with manuscript additions by an unknown hand, a few illustrations added, some bound in, some tipped to blank leaves. Recent cloth slipcase. Covers moderately scuffed, light scattered foxing to text, lithograph plates are very foxed. Item #22109
Originally published in 1700, an exhaustive study of the history and habitation of Hertfordshire.
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