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    • Author/Creator:Kirby, John, 1690-1753.
    • Title:The Suffolk traveller / first published by Mr. John Kirby of Wickham-Market, who took an actual survey of the whole county, in the years 1732, 1733, and 1734.
    • Edition:The second edition, with many alterations and large additions, by several hands.
    • Published/Created:London : Printed for J. Shave ... and sold by T. Longman .... 1764.
    • Physical Description:xvi, 296 p., [5] leaves of plates (fold). : maps ; 21 cm.
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: DA670 S9 K5 1764
      • Status:No information available 
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: This copy is interleaved with ms. notes and the text is extensively annotated in several unknown hands. Bookseller's note suggest notes are by William Upcott and George Alfred Carthew.
    • Notes:"Published by subscription...under the editorship of the Rev. Richard Canning." - Dict. Nat. Biog.
      Published anonymously in 1829 under title: A topographical and historical description of the county of Suffolk. Cf. Dict. Nat. Biog.
      "A list of subscribers": p. iii-xvi.
    • Format:Book
    • Subjects:Suffolk (England)--Description and travel.
      Suffolk (England)--History.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron--1764.
      Engraving--Specimens--1764.
      Upcott, William, 1779-1845.
      Brooke, Francis Capper, 1810-1886--Provenance.
      Carthew, George Alfred, 1807-1882.
      J. Shave--Publisher.
    • Also listed under:Canning, Richard, 1708-1775.