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7 volumes in 2. 44 (i.e. 45) plates (4 folded) : 29 cm

Vol. 3 has supplement by Rev. John Whitaker, with title: A supplement to the first and second books of the History of Cornwall; containing remarks on St. Michael's mount, Penzance, the land's end, and the Sylleh Isles. By the historian of Manchester. Exeter, Printed by Trewman and Son, for Cadell and Davies, London, 1804. 96 p

Vol. 3, title page, is misnumbered II and changed in ink

Vol. 6 contains a Cornish-English vocabulary

Vol. [7] has title page: The history of Cornwall: in respect to its population ... Truro, Printed for Cadell and Davies, 1806

Possibly a reissue of the 1803-1816 edition with cancelled title pages

V. V, p. 207 misnumbered 205

Consists of the original sheets of the author's "History of Cornwall," published in 3 vol., 1803, to which are added 4 works of the same author in their original editions (with separate t.-ps.), with some added material. New t.-ps. bearing date 1816 are prefixed to all the volumes of this edition--Cf. Brit. Mus. Catalogue

For full statement in regard to this work--See Boase: Bibliotheca cornubiensis, v. 2, p. 510

2 geneal. tab. given in "List of prints and pedigrees" at end of v. 7, never printed--Cf. Lowndes

Orig. t.p. v. 4: The civil and military history of Cornwall; with illustrations from Devonshire ... Exeter, printed by Trewman and Son ... 1806

Orig. t.p. v. 5: The language, literature, and literary characters, of Cornwall: with illustrations from Devonshire ... London, printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806

Orig. t.p., v. 6: A Cornish-English vocabulary; a vocabulary of local names, chiefly Saxon; and a provincial glossary ... Truro, printed at the Cornish Press, by J. Tregoning ... 1808

Orig. t.p., v. 7: The history of Cornwall: in respect to its population; and the health, strength, activity ... of its inhabitants; ... Truro, printed at the Cornish Press, by J. Tregoning ... 1806

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