THE PICTURE OF SHEFFIELD; Or an Historical and Descriptive View of the Town of Sheffield in the County of York.





Book Description
A Good Copy of this scarce annonymous early guide, in Large Paper and original cloth backed boards. Duodecimo 258pps plus seven page unpaginated index. Eight mounted woodcuts by Orlando Jewitt and a large folding map / plan of "Sheffield in 1736" by John Leather. Inserted as a frontispiece though not included in large paper copies and here provided in facsimile. See COPAC which also attributes "A short description of the town- ship of Attercliffe cum-Darnall": pp. 246-258.to John Holland.] Boyne's Yorkshire Library p107.CL."This is an excellent Sheffield Guide,one of the best of its kind.The woodcuts are excellent."
Author
Annon [Ramsay,Thomas] Holland John.
Date
1824
Binding
Original cloth backed boards
Publisher
SHEFFIELD Printed and Published by George Ridge 3 King Street 1824.
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