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The Norfolk Tour: or, Traveller’s Pocket Companion.

Name: The Norfolk Tour: or, Traveller’s Pocket Companion.
Author: [BEATNIFFE (Richard) Editor.]

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Title continues: Being a concise description of all the principal towns, as well as of the noblemens and gentlemens seats And other Remarkable Places. in the county of Norfolk. Compiled from the most authentic Histbrians and modern Travellers, and corrected to the present Time. To which are added, An Index Villaris for the County, and a List of the Palaces and chief Seats in England. Fourth edition, greatly enlarged and improved, 12mo (175 x 100 mm), [8], 1-48, 37*-42*, 49-240, 129-136pp., collates complete as with the British Library copy, 3 leaves numbered 37*-42* have been inserted between pp.48-49, pp.241-248 misnumbered 129-136, a very good copy attractively bound in 19th century roan by Aubrey of Salisbury, joints cracked but firm. Provenance: From the library of Josceline Grove, with bookplate and their typed catalogue description pasted to front endpapers.

Dealer Notes

First published in 1772 with just 60pp, this fourth edition is almost double the size of the third. “From the additions, alterations, and I hope improvements made in almost every part of the book, since the publication of the third edition of 1777, it may perhaps more properly be called a new work, than the revival of an old one.” It includes a complete Catalogue of the Pictures, Statues and Busts at Holkham, and of the Curiosities and Paintings at Narford. One of the major changes was to update the description of Houghton Hall, as since the last edition, the 3rd Earl of Orford had sold the collection of old master paintings to Catherine the Great.

Author [BEATNIFFE (Richard) Editor.]

Date 1786

Publisher Norwich: Printed and sold by R. Beatniffe,

Price: £220.00

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