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Book

The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire : being lives of the most distinguished persons that have been born in, or connected with, those provinces

Call Number

  • H 920 C69 (CEN)

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Publication Information

London : Simpkin and Marshall ; Leeds : F.E. Bingley, 1832-[1833]

Physical Description

[4], viii, 720 p., [3] leaves of plates : ports. ; 24 cm.

Notes

Published in 3 parts (paged continuously) in June and October, 1832 and March, 1833; plans for subsequent parts were halted by the bankruptcy of the Leeds publisher, Bingley.

Republished in 1833, with addition of an index, with title: Biographia borealis; a 3 v. edition, edited by Derwent Coleridge, with marginal notations made by S.T. Coleridge, was published in 1852 under title: Lives of northern worthies.

Kalamazoo Public Library copy: bookplate for Albert May Todd; missing pp. 209-239 (James Stanley ?)

Title page transcription from cover of part 1.

Contents

  • Andrew Marvell
  • Dr. Richard Bentley
  • Thomas, Lord Fairfax
  • James, Earl of Derby
  • Lady Anne Clifford
  • Roger Ascham
  • John Fisher
  • The Rev. William Mason
  • Sir Richard Arkwright
  • William Roscoe
  • Captain James Cook
  • William Congreve
  • Dr. John Fothergill.

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