[Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica. No X[1] Containing] A Short Account of Holyhead, in the Isle of Anglesea [PRICE] Publisher: Publish Year: 0 Publish Place: Illustrator: Unknown Category: Miscellaneous, Foreign Travel, Antiquarian Book, History, Reference Book No: 007725 Status: For Sale Book Condition: Very Good Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Jacket Condition: Binding: Hardcover Book Type: Unknown Edition: Inscription: Unknown £175.00 Add to Basket Ask a question Refer to a friend Additional information VG, c1790. In modern blue paper boards, cream paper spine, printed paper label. Internally, map frontis, [2], 36 pp, 3 plates (2 maps, 1 half page - coins), several small illustrations within the text, leaf with half page ms on 'Holy Head Mountain what Ruskin Says', small oval lib stamp to ep, new endpapers. (ESTC T79959, NCBEL, II:1306 Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p.15, An additional illustrated leaf (numbered 35-6) was issued in 1790 with No.52 - which this copy has). (Folio, 251* 204 mm). PRICE wrote A Short Account of Holyhead in the Isle of Anglesey, 1783. This was No. 10 of Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica. He also contributed an article to Archaeologia, vol. 8, entitled 'An Account of a bronze image of Roman workmanship.' Many of his letters were published in Nichols, Illustrations of Literary History of the 18th Century, together with the only known portrait of him. See NLW WBO for a full Bio.
