Notitia Parliamentaria. : Or, An History Of The Counties, Cities And Boroughs In England And Wales..
Bound in contemporary full panelled calf,gilt,. A worm has drilled through the lower margin of the book, but the text is nowhere affected. An attractive example in original binding.
£175.00
Publisher
Robert Gosling, London:,
Date
1715
Item Description
First Edition 8vo., xl + 183 pp.
Notes
Browne Willis (1689-1760), the great Buckinghamshire antiquarian, published this first part of his History in 1715 beginning with his local counties, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire. A second volume was published in 1716 covering Cornwall to Durham, but no further counties were published. A third volume published in 1750 is not really a continuation. Willis collected information from numerous manuscript sources and the work's value lies in the fact that a lot of the original material recorded here is no longer extant. Scarce.
[Stock No. 16094]
