The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset : compiled from the best and most ancient historians, inquistiones post mortem, and other valuable records and mss. in the public offices and libraries, and in private hands : with a copy of Domesday book and the Inquisitio gheldi for the county : interspersed with some remarkable particulars of natural history : and adorned with a correct map of the county, and views of antiquities, seats of the nobility and gentry, &c. / By John Hutchins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchins, John, 1698-1773.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dorset (England).

Penn Provenance:

Hornby, C.H. St. John (bookplate)

Physical Description:

4 volumes : illustrations (some folded), map ; 43 cm

Edition:

The third edition, cor., augmented, and improved by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson.

Place of Publication:

Westminster : Printed by J.B. Nichols and Sons, 1861-1870.

Notes:

Title in red and black.

After 1868 William Shipp was sole editor. cf. Prefatory notice by Emily Shipp, v. 1.

First edition, 2 vols., 1774; 2d, 4 vols., 1796-1815.

Contains numerous pedigrees.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: [6] leaves of plates from v.1 and [4] leaves of plates from v.2 wanting.

OCLC:

2093368