'The history of the famous city and port of Bristol. Vol. 1...'
MS. Gough Somerset 2
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
'The history of the famous city and port of Bristol. Vol. 1...'
Shelfmark
MS. Gough Somerset 2
Summary
'The history of the famous city and port of Bristol. Vol. 1. Compil'd by James Stewart, and ornamented, by the same hand, with ... [10] drawings ...' 1753: this first part is a history of Bristol to 1733, with long appendix, and index: the second and third were designed to be a geographical description, and lists: the introduction gives a full account of the composition of the work. See MS. Gough Somersetshire 8.
(196 and 256 pages)
Date
Written in and shortly before 1753 by J. Stewart
Language
English
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
552 pages
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Collection contents
Somersetshire
Somersetshire MSS.
'The history of the famous city and port of Bristol. Vol. 1...'
