Fair. Full tree calf, somewhat abraded. Joints are split and upper board has been re-adhered with flex-bind. Armorial bookplate (contemporaneous with age of printing) to front pastedown. A touch of pallid damp-staining to fold-out plate and gutter of first few leaves. First leaves a little thumbed and with the odd negligible mark. Prelims and 248pp. 12mo; 7 1/2". First edition, first printing. With fold-out engraved frontispiece. Lacking the 2 fold-out maps and the other fold-out view. Thoresby began work on his great history of Leeds at the beginning of the 1690?s. He expanded substantially his father?s collection of coins and medals, and his expertise on northern Roman remains was one of his qualifications for Fellowship of the Royal Society. His considerable reputation as an antiquary and topographer had been justified by the publication of his earlier work on the topography of Leeds, and in particular the account of his museum, which had wider appeal than the more local interest of his topographical history of Leeds. The present work is different though also a product of Thoresby?s long period of historical study, and though he never published his work on the history of Leeds in all periods (bar the Roman) the part of his immense research concerning the church in Leeds was published as the present work. Thus this work is quite distinct and a companion to his more famous Ducatus Leodiensis of 1715. Seller Inventory # 028111

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Title: Vicaria Leodiensis: or, The History of the ...

Publisher: Printed for Joseph Smith., London.

Publication Date: 1724

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Edition: 1st Edition

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