The history and antiquities of the conventual and cathedral church of Ely : from the foundation of the monastery, A.D. 673 to the year 1771 : illustrated with copper-plates / by James Bentham ...

Accession number: 
PML 145578
Author: 
Bentham, James, 1708-1794.
Published: 
Cambridge : Printed at the university press, by J. Bentham, sold by Mr. Bathurst, London, Messrs. Merrill, and Mr. Woodyer, at Cambridge, and by Mr. Fletcher & Mr. Prince, at Oxford, 1771.
Description: 
[8], viii, 292, 70 p., i, iv-xlix leaves of plates (8 folded) : ill., plans, coats of arms ; 33 cm.
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Engravings primarily drawn by Heins and engraved by Lamborne.
Appendix in Latin and English.
List of subscribers' names, p. [5-8].
Signatures: a-b² c⁴ A-N⁴ O² *A-*G⁴ *H-*K² *L²[-*L2, blank?].
Includes index.

Binding: 
Red morocco, ornately blind-tooled in neoclassical style, gold-tooled, by Staggemeier & Welcher, with their orange ticket.
Provenance: 
Edward Henry Scott (armorial bookplate); Gordon N. Ray.
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