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The Diary of a Country Parson: the Reverend James Woodforde. Volumes 1-5. [Complete set.]. Edited by John Beresford. COMPLETE SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
by WOODFORDE James
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Oxford University Press,, [1926-1931]. 5 vols., 8vo., First Edition (save first volume), with frontispieces (most original tissue guards present), and plates; original black cloth, backstrips with printed paper labels, volume numbers on labels faded (else all labels legible), uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp set. With the fine engraved armorial bookplate of Alfred Julian Ritchie on front paste-downs. Woodforde's account includes Oxford and the Somerset Curacies 1758-1776 and thereafter his residence in the Norfolk village of Weston Longeville. The set comprises: Vol. I: 1758-1781 (third impression, 1926); Vol. II: 1782-87 (first edition, 1926); Vol. III: 1788-92 (first edition, 1927); Vol. IV: 1793-1796 (first edition, 1929); Vol. V: 1797-1802 (first edition, 1931). COMPLETE SETS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671.
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- Title
- The Diary of a Country Parson: the Reverend James Woodforde. Volumes 1-5. [Complete set.]. Edited by John Beresford. COMPLETE SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
- Author
- WOODFORDE James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press,
- Date Published
- [1926-1931]
- Keywords
- topography, oxfordshire, oxon, oxford, somersetshire, somerset, norfolk, weston longeville, woodforde, beresford, j woodforde, topography, diary, country, parson, reverend, james, woodforde
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