Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of Several Essays on the First Habitants, Druid-Superstition, Customs, and Remains of the most Remote Antiquity in Britain, and the British Isles, Exemplified and Proved by Monuments Now Extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, with a Vocabulary of the Cornu-British Language.
London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for S. Baker and G. Leigh...; T. Payne...; and Benjamin White, 1769. Second edition, folio, xvi, 464 pp. Two maps - one folding - and 25 plates - one of these also folding, plus 10 illustrations in the text, early owner's signature to title page and armorial bookplate to paste down. Contemporary speckled calf, a little marked and rubbed, rebacked in maroon sheep preserving the original spine label. Upcott, I, pp. 82-86. A revised edition with the addition of the folding map of the county and two additional plates. Item #50075
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