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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.