Eboracum, or the History and Antiquities of the City of York. Together with the History of the Cathedral Church and the Lives of the Archbishops of that See
DRAKE, Francis
SPLENDID LARGE PAPER COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF
Published: Printed by William Bowyer for the Author, 1736
Stock code: 52105
Price: £745.00
Folio, First Edition, Large Paper, with fine copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, 60 fine copper-engraved plates (17 folding or double-page), and 53 engraved illustrations in the text, frontispiece neatly remargined; full contemporary diced calf, upper board elaborately bordered in gilt, back with raised bands, second compartment with black leather label framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, sometime neatly rebacked in calf to style, a strikingly bright, crisp, clean, crisp copy with virtually spotless plates throughout.
With the nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of George Keate on front paste-down. A splendid copy of work which, despite occasional errors, remains a landmark history of the city and Minster. Anderson, p.330; Boyne LVII; Upcott p.1357 (X). Please note that extra postage will be required for shipping outside the UK.