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1st edition. Quarto, c. 10 x 7.5 inches, pp. iv + 176, brown 'clay' endpapers, hardback in original cloth. Book condition - Good plus., contents clean, two neat inscriptions (names) at top of title page, very occasional neat marginalia in pencil, pages edges very lightly tanned, binding sound, inner hinges intact ; original cloth with gilt and black decoration to front board and spine ; corners rubbed, back clean with a few, faint, small marks, spine complete with clear gilt , spine ends rubbed and creased, horizontal split across spine between 'Domesday' and Dorset, front clean with complete and clear decoration, some light marking towards top corner. Contents include Inroductory Essay - Hidation and the Domesday Hide, Carucates and Plough-Lands, Lineal Measures, Areal Measures, The Territory surveyed in Domesday, Population - Censores, Coliberti, Villani, Cotarii, etc., Farming Stock, Valuations ; Chapter 1 The four Dorset Boroughs Surveyed in Dorset ; Ch. 2. Domesday Schedule of Dorset Landholders, Ch. 3. "Terra Regis" of the Dorset Domesday , Ch. 4 The Prae-Domesday Hundreds of Dorset, Ch. 5. Domesday Hidage compared with modern acreage, Ch.6. Domesday Mensuration and Valuation, Ch.7 Statistics - adult male population of Dorset 1086 and 1871, value of land and produce, agricultural population, plough-lands and teams , plus Index of Places, Index of Persons. Seller Inventory # 1713
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