1760 · London
by Dyche, Thomas, & William Pardon
London: printed for Catherine and Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate-Hill, 1760. 8vo, collating A-3L⁸; lexicon in double column; contemporary full calf, gilt fillets on an otherwise unadorned spine; slightly rubbed, but near fine. Early ownership signature of Ann Eagles on the title page, and an additional inscription at the top of the first page of the Introduction: "Ann Eagles had this book 1765 given to me by my dear father EE, Gawcott, Bucks." Incorporating the names and descriptions of hundreds of English and Welsh towns, with their market-days, government, manufactures, distances from London, etc. It was partially due to this gazetteer-like (truncated)