The History of Chichester, interpersed with Notes and Observations on the Early and Present State of the City, the most remarkable Places in its Vicinity, and the County of Sussex in General
HAY, Alexander
BRIGHT, CRISP, UNOPENED COPY OF THE FIRST SUBSTANTIAL HISTORY
Published: Seagrave [and] Longman, 1804
Stock code: 50365
Price: £112.00
8vo., First Edition, with pictorial endpapers; original boards, cloth back, expertly rebacked with cloth to style, ORIGINAL PAPER LABEL PRESERVED, UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED, a remarkably bright, fresh, crisp copy.
With the list of subscribers bound in. Dedicated to William Hayley, Hay's work is the first substantial history of the city. It includes the city charters at three different times, and an account of all the parishes in the county, including names, patronage, appropriations, king's-book values, first-fruits and more. Anderson, p.281.