Shelfmark
Gk.2.20
Author
Title
The history of Edinburgh, from its foundation to the present time. Containing A faithful Relation of the publick Transactions of the Citizens; Accounts of the several Parishes; its Governments, Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military; Incorporations of Trades and Manufactures; Courts of Justice; State of Learning; Charitable Foundations, &c. With the several Accounts of The Parishes of the Canongate, St. Cuthbert, and other Districts within the Suburbs of Edinburgh. Together with the antient and present State of the Town of Leith, and a Perambulation of divers Miles round the City. With an Alphabetical Index. In nine books. By William Maitland, F. R. S. Author of the History of London. The whole illustrated with a Plan of the Town, and a great Variety of other fine Cuts of the principal Buildings within the City and Suburbs..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Edinburgh: : Printed by Hamilton, Balfour and Neill, for the author., MDCCLIII. [1753]
Physical description
viii, 518 p., plates : ill., tables, map (folded) ; 36 cm. (Fo.)
Note
Printed in two columns.
Note
Plates signed "T. Sandby delin." and "P. Fourdrinier sculp.".
Citation/references note
ESTC, T100092
Provenance
Ex-libris of Bartlett Gurney (1756-1803), engraved by C. Wilkin, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of John Longe of Spixworth Hall on front pastedown.
Binding
18th-century calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with gilt fillet to form a border; gilt initials "BG" enclosed by a circle form the centrepiece; gilt transversal fillets on board edges. Spine with six raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, a tool depicting a lion, "BG" initials, and titling ("Maitland's [h]ist: of [E]dinburgh"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Edinburgh (Scotland) History.
Added entry--name
Fourdrinier, Paul, 1698 - 1758 engraver.
Added entry--name
Sandby, Thomas, 1723 - 1798 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Gurney, Bartlett former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Longe, John, 1765 - 1834 former owner.
Added entry--name
Hamilton, Balfour and Neill printer.
Added entry--place
Scotland Edinburgh.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51318