TORR, James. The Antiquities of York City, and the civil government thereof: with a life of all the mayors and bayliffs, lord mayors and sheriffs, from the time of King Edward the First, to this present year, 1719. Collected from the papers of Christopher Hildyard, Esq; with notes and observations, and the addition of ancient inscriptions, and coates of arms, from gravestones and church-windows. [8], 148, [4]pp Appendix. A very good clean copy in quarter calf, rebacked retaining the original marbled boards. Some rubbing to the board edges. With new end-papers and pastedowns. Contemporary signature of Sam: Staniforth (?) On a preliminary blank. Boyne 59. 8vo. G. White. York. 1719. James Torr[e] had in fact died in 1699 and in connecting his name with the authorship of this work Francis Hildyard became involved in a protracted and public argument with Nicholas Torr, the son of the antiquary. The main part of the volume is a reprint of Christopher Hildyard's [recorder of Hedon] List of Mayors which had been published in 1664. Hildyard asserted that the additional material relating to the antiquities of the city had been edited by Torr, with a view to publication, from Christopher Hildyard's papers, and thus the attribution was just. It is with the inclusion of this additional information that this work is often referred to as the first true history of the city, expanding on the listing contained in the 1664 publication. see Davies pp. 137-8.