Lot 119
  • 119

Yorkshire--Drake, Francis

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York. London: William Bowyer for the author, 1736
  • paper
LARGE PAPER COPY, FIRST EDITION, folio (465 x 274mm.), 60 engraved plates, a few double-page (including 2 hand-coloured maps), engraved illustrations in text (including 11 full-page), EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with a mezzotint portrait of the author (dated 1771) and "An additional plate of Roman Curiositys [sic]" at p.65, list of subscribers, fly-title "Book the Second..." at p.398, late eighteenth-century russia gilt, gilt edges

Provenance

Richard Hill Esq., Thornton, bookplate

Literature

BAL RIBA 913; Upcott III, p.1357

Condition

A good copy
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Catalogue Note

A FINE COPY (see frontispiece to this catalogue).