AN HISTORICAL & TOPOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF LEOMINSTER, And Its Vicinity; With an Appendix. Ludlow: Printed and Sold by H. Proctor 1795. 1st Ed. [xii] + 272pp. + [i]. 6 tinted plates. [Bound with]. AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CITY OF HEREFORD. With Some Remarks on the River Wye, and the Natural and Artificial Beauties Contiguous to its Banks, from Brobery to Wilton. Hereford Printed by D. Walker . 1796. 1st Ed. 262pp. + [i]. Map, 2 plans, 4 plates. pp.143-144 with loss to leading corner not affecting text.

Price, John.

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Together 2 works in 1 volume. Light browning, marbled e.ps., inner gilt dentelles, booklabel D to pastedown, contemporary calf boards with gilt ruling and fillet to edges, some minor wear and marking, several sm. wormholes to upper joints towards tail, some loss to lower joint to upper portion, gilt lettered labels with gilt tooling to spine. Upcott 324; Bibliotheca Herefordiensis pp.38 and pp.16.With the monogramed letters SX under a ducal crown to the tail of spine. The monogram of George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex FSA (1757 1839) English aristocrat and politician, and styled Viscount Malden until 1799. His surname was Capell until 1781 when he took the additional name of Coningsby on succeeding to the Hampton Court, Herefordshire estate of his grandmother, Lady Francis Hanbury-Williams, née Coningsby. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire from 1802 to 1817. John Price (1773 1801), topographer, was born at Leominster, Herefordshire. He gave lessons there in French, Latin, Italian, and Spanish. Subsequently he became a bookseller at Hereford, but finally settled at Worcester. He occasionally made walking tours on the continent. In 1795 he published An Historical and Topographical Account of Leominster and its Vicinity. This was followed in 1796 by An Historical Account of the City of Hereford, with some Remarks on the River Wye. This 'very respectable performance' was founded on collections given to the writer by John Lodge, author of Introductory Sketches towards a Topographical History of Herefordshire (1793) . ODNB. US$369.

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• Title: AN HISTORICAL & TOPOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF LEOMINSTER, And Its Vicinity; With an Appendix. Ludlow: Printed and Sold by H. Proctor 1795. 1st Ed. [xii] + 272pp. + [i]. 6 tinted plates. [Bound with]. AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CITY OF HEREFORD. With Some Remarks on the River Wye, and the Natural and Artificial Beauties Contiguous to its Banks, from Brobery to Wilton. Hereford Printed by D. Walker . 1796. 1st Ed. 262pp. + [i]. Map, 2 plans, 4 plates. pp.143-144 with loss to leading corner not ...
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