EDITION LIMITED TO 250 NUMERED AND SIGNED COPIES. BLUE CARD BOARDS WITH A VELLUM SPINE. QUARTO 547 PAPGES. WITH A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR OF THE CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND HERALD DATED 1948. BOOKPLATE OF FATTORINI THE SILVERSMITHS. SOME BUMPING TO THE CORNERS OF THE BOARDS BUT A VERY GOOD CLEAN COPY.
SECOND EDITION COMPLETE IN 10 VOLUMES. NICELY BOUND IN HALF GREEN LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS T.E.G. WITH AN ENGRAVED FRONTIS. TO EACH VOLUME. SOME FOXING TO THE PRELIMS. THEN CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. A HANDSOME SET.
FIRST EDITION OCTAVO TWO VOLUMES LIMITED TO 500 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 488. FINELY REBOUND IN HALF BROWN LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS RAISED BANDS RED TITLE LABLES NEW ENDPAPERS. TEG UNCIT PAGE EDGES. VOL. 1 446 pp list of subscribers index. VOL. 2 443 pp index. A FINE AND HANDSOME SET. Ralph Thoresby (16 August 1658 16 October 1724) born in Leeds and is widely credited with being the first historian of that city. He was besides a merchant non-conformist fellow of the Royal Society diarist author common-councilman in the Corporation of Leeds and museum keeper.