Author: Wright, James.
Title: The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland: Collected from Records, Ancient Manuscripts, Monuments on the Place, and Other Antiquities. Illustrated with Sculptures.
Description: London: Printed for Bennet Griffin at the Griffin in the Great Old Bailey and are to be sold by Christopher Wilkinson at the Black Boy and by Samuel Keble at the Turks Head in Fleet Street, 1684. 0. Hardcover. Folio. [viii], 140, [iv], 3-12pp. A4-T4, A6. First edition. Titlepage in red-and-black. Includes "Additions to the History of Rutlandshire" (1687), lacking in most copies. Contemporary calf. Double-page map with engraved plates in the text. Among the many plates are ten architectural renderings of the area's great houses and churches at the time of William and Mary, several of which are the only seventeenth-century engravings of the buildings. From the library of Baron Northwick, with his bookplate. ESTC R25215. Good.

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