Gc.4.02
Willis, Browne, 1682 - 1760 author.
A survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Lichfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, and Bristol. Giving an account of their foundations, builders, antient monuments and inscription, endowments, alienations, sales of lands, patronages; dates of consecration, admission, preferment, deaths, burials, and epitaphs of the archbishops, bishops, deans, precentors, chancellors, treasurers, archdeacons, and prebendaries, in each stall belonging to them. With an extra account of all the churches and chapels in every diocese; distinguished under their proper archdeaconries and deanaries; the patrons of them, to what religious houses impropriated, and to what saints many of them are dedicated. The whole extracted from numerous collections out of the registers of every particular see, old wills, records in the Tower, and Rolls Chapel. And illustrated with 20 curious draughts of the ichnographies and uprights of every cathedral; newly taken to rectify the erroneous representations of them in the monasticon, and other authors. By Browne Willis Esq;.
London: : Printed for R. Gosling, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street., MDCCXXVII. [1727]
2 v. (viii, viii, 894 p., [20] leaves of plates (18 folded)) : ill., plans ; 24 cm. (4to)
Pagination: vol. 1: viii, viii, 370 pages; vol. 2: [4], 371-894 pages.
Signatures: volume 1: [A]⁴ (-[A]4) A-3C⁴ ; volume 2: [pi]² 3D-5Y⁴ 5Z²
In vol. 1, first gathering, the signatures are actually [pi], [A], A2 and [A3].
Engraved headpieces and initials.
Advertisements on verso of half-title and on the final leaf.
Continuous pagination and register in both volumes.
A continuation, entitled 'A survey of the cathedrals of Lincoln, Ely, Oxford, and Peterborough' was published in 1730.
Reissued as part of 'A survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, .. In three volumes' London, printed for T. Osborne, and T. Bacon in Dublin 1742.
Engraved coat-of-arms of Alexander Denton on leaf A2.
Printing wrongly attributed to William Bowyer by John Nichols, Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century, i 367; Bowyer printed the 1730 continuation.
ESTC, T93608
Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, A20
18th century engraved armorial bookplate recording bequest by Edward Waddington in 1731; engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
18th century Cambridge style blind-panelled and sprinkled calf; five raised bands; gold-tooled spine; traces of spine label; endbands; red sprinkled text block edges.
ECL copy: 2 volumes bound in one.
Previous shelfmarks: Cd.5.01, Cl.4.10.
Cathedrals England Early works to 1800.
Church buildings England Early works to 1800.
Church buildings Isle of Man.
Gosling, Robert, ? - d. 1741 publisher.
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
England London.
B48845