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WILLIS, Browne (1682--1760)
[Cathedral surveys. England. Part 2. 1730]
A survey of the cathedrals of Lincoln, Ely, Oxford, and Peterborough. Containing a history of their foundations, builders, antient monuments, and inscriptions; endowments, alienations, sales of lands, patronages. ... With an exact account of all the churches and chapels in each diocese; ... illustrated with twelve curious draughts of the ichnographies, uprights, and other prospects of these cathedrals; newly taken to rectify the erroneous representations of them in the Monasticon, and other authors. By Browne Willis, Esq;
London (Place), printed for R. Gosling,, 1730.
[4], iii, [1], 592 p., [12] pl. ; 24.8 cm. (4º)

A continuation of Willis's Survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Lichfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, and Bristol, 1727 (q.v.). BAL, Early printed books, no. 3669; ESTC t93607.

Copy Notes Traces of the removal of an earlier bookplate underneath Soane's.

Binding C18th undyed goatskin, gilt rule borders, gilt-tooled spine, gilt edges. Uniformly bound as volume III with the author's Survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Lichfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, and Bristol, 1727 (q.v.).

Reference Number 3603

Additional Names Lincoln Cathedral - History, Early works to 1800; Ely Cathedral - History, Early works to 1800; Christ Church Cathedral (Oxford, England) - History, Early works to 1800; Peterborough Cathedral - History, Early works to 1800


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