A Key to Domesday, showing The Method and Exactitude of its Mensuration, and the Precise Meaning of Its More Usual Formulae. The Subject being Specially Exemplified by an Analysis and Digest of the Dorset Survey

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.…