The antiquities of the cathedral church of Worcester

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Title: The antiquities of the cathedral church of Worcester
Creator: Abingdon, Thomas
Published / Created: 1717.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for E. Curll
Description: Signatures: [*]²a-b⁸c²B-Q⁸R⁴a-f⁴B-F⁴.
'The monumental inscriptions are added by another hand, who took them from the originals. And the catalogue of dignitaries is mostly extracted from the papers of Dr. William Hopkins ... '--cf. Preface.
Fully described in Upcott, p. 1341-2.
LWL 49 671: Imperfect: p. xlviii, 62 p. wanting.
LWL 49 671: Horace Walpole's copy, with his shelf-mark; bought at the Strawberry Hill sale for Lord Derby. With Lord Derby's note and armorial bookplate.
LWL 49 671: Christie's, 19 Oct. 1953 (Knowsley Hall sale) lot 72A to Maggs for Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (with another book).
Old calf, rebacked. Bookplate 1. Pressmark E.5.37. Bookplate of Lord Derby. With a small pencil sketch of an armorial shield, perhaps by Horace Walpole, in the left margin of page 26.
Provenance: Strawberry Hill Sale, day ii, lot 38 (with Burr, Harris, Smith, and Stevens), to Boone for Lord Derby, £1.1.0; Christie's, 19 October 1953 (Knowsley Hall Sale), lot 72A. Maggs for W.S. Lewis, with another book,
Extent: 2 p. l., 240, [8], xlviii, 62 p. 21 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Original art
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, earl of, 1775-1851 > Bookplate
Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, earl of, 1775-1851 > Ms. notes
Derby, Edward John Stanley, Earl of, 1918- > Ownership

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