The history and antiquities of Staffordshire Compiled from the manuscripts of Huntbach, Loxdale, Bishop Lyttelton, and other collections ... including Erdeswick's Survey of the county; and the approved parts of Dr. Plot's Natural history. The whole brought down to the present time; interspersed with pedigrees and anecdotes of families; observations on agriculture, commerce, mines, and manufactories By the Rev. Stebbing Shaw ... V. I, V. 2, pt. I

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Stebbing, 1762-1802.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Staffordshire (England).

Physical Description:

2 v. illus., 84 pl. incl. 2 front., port., fold. map, plans, facsim. geneal. tab. 46 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, Printed by and for J. Nichols, 1798-1801.

Contents:

v. I. The antient and modern history of thirty parishes in the hundred of Offlow, arranged geographically.

v. II, pt. I. The prefatory introduction, commencing with a series of original letters from Plot's time to the present; general and natural history, &c; antient and modern history of the remaining parishes in the hundred of Offlow, and the whole of Seisdon.

Notes:

To have been completed in three vols.; no more published.

Most of the plates are from drawings by the author.

Minor variations of title.