Setting forth its original constitution, government, manufactories, trade, commerce and navigation, its several wards, parishes, precincts, districts, churches, religious and charitable foundations, and other public edifices: together with the charters, laws, customs, rights, liberties, and privileges of that ancient city.
Winton, Printed and sold by J. Wilkes, et al... 1773
2 vols, 12mo (185 x 115 mm); engraved frontispiece to each vol. and a further 11 plates including 2 folding, mild, marginal corner creases to some leaves, small pinholes to lower corner of p. 156 and one corner chipped to p. 38 in vol. i, printer's error omits pagination of pp. 265 - 268 in vol. ii but text still complete, all in all exceptionally clean and bright; modern half calf over marbled boards gilt, lettering pieces to spines, most attractive; x, [2], 237, [1]; [6], 299, [1] pp.
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