xxiv 493pp 16'' folio hardback, original publisher's cloth gilt, faded, gilt illustration to front board, colour frontispiece being one of two chromolithograph plates and three further lithographic plates, decorated initials, title page printed in two colours foxing to pages and plates, second chromolithograph little affected backstrip with closed tear. Full title reads: '' Monasticon Diocesis Exoniensis being a Collection of Records and Instruments Illustrating the Ancient Conventual, Collegiate and Eleemosynary Foundations in the Counties of Cornwall and Devon with Historical Notices and a Supplement Comprising a List of the Dedications of Churches in the Diocese an Amended Edition of the Taxation of Pope Nicholas and an Abstract of the Chantry Rolls''