The history and antiquities of the county of Essex : compiled from the best and most ancient historians; from Domesday-book, Inquisitiones post mortem, and other the most valuable records and mss. &c., the whole digested, improved, perfected, and brought down to the present time / by Philip Morant ; illustrated with copper plates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morant, Philip, 1700-1770.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Essex (England)--History--Early works to 1800.

Essex (England).

Essex (England)--Antiquities--Early works to 1800.

Penn Provenance:

Suffield, Edward Harbord, Baron, 1781-1835 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations, 22 plates (partly folded), 9 maps (partly folded), folded plan. ; 37 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

3105 d.ns saer Coth (3) 1768 (R) v.1

T.t, ioii I.n- anas (3) 1768 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn; J. Whiston, in Fleet-Street; S. Baker, in York-Street; L. Davis and C. Reymers, in Holborn; and B. White, in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXVIII [1768]

Notes:

With a separate titlepage in vol. 1 for 'The history and antiquities of the most ancient town and borough of Colchester', second edition improved, as well as the 'Appendix' with separate pagination and register; after this come the accounts of the hundreds in Essex.

Plates engraved by Thomas Bowen, J. Mynde, Benjamin Green, George Vertue, Larken, John Hakewill, Bland, Emanuel Bowen, Charles Mosley and Thomas White; after John Deane, Benjamin Green, Dunthorne, J. Kirby, E, Hamman, Thomas Olive and A. Baldrey.

In double columns.

Paging irregular.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brown calf with gold-tooled border on boards; author and title stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled designs on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; all edges gilt.

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield (1781-1835) on the front pastedown of the two volumes.

Cited in:

ESTC, T201443

Upcott, W. English topography, v. 1. p. 224

OCLC:

5342258