Leicestershire.- Burton (William) The Description of
Leicestershire.- Burton (William) The Description of Leicester Shire, containing Matters of Antiquitye, Historye, Armorye, and Genealogy, engraved pictorial title (neatly trimmed to margins and window-mounted), engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map by C. Saxton (neatly mounted on stub, stain to lower corner), woodcut coats of arms in text, first 2ff. of text a little soiled with small portion of restoration to head, ink notes in a contemporary hand extending genealogical tables, occasionally to margins and adding 3pp. of index to rear endpapers, bookplate to pastedown, olive calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, light rubbing and fading to spine, g.e., [STC 4179], folio, for John White, [1622].
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Leicestershire.- Burton (William) The Description of Leicester Shire, containing Matters of Antiquitye, Historye, Armorye, and Genealogy, engraved pictorial title (neatly trimmed to margins and window-mounted), engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map by C. Saxton (neatly mounted on stub, stain to lower corner), woodcut coats of arms in text, first 2ff. of text a little soiled with small portion of restoration to head, ink notes in a contemporary hand extending genealogical tables, occasionally to margins and adding 3pp. of index to rear endpapers, bookplate to pastedown, olive calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, light rubbing and fading to spine, g.e., [STC 4179], folio, for John White, [1622].
