Description
8vo, pp. [ii], 45, [1] + frontispiece. Extracted from a volume. A little spotting, faint dampmark to fore-edge in a couple of places.
An Epitome of Mr. Gunton’s History of Peterborough Cathedral. The tenth edition. Containing a Fuller and More Precise Account, Than Has Hitherto Been Given, of the Centuries, in which the Several Parts of this Edifice Were Begun Upon and Completed.
- Peterborough: Printed and Sold by C. Jacob 1806
£40
Notes
Simon Gunton's history of Peterborough Cathedral was first published posthumously in 1686 and this condensed epitome, printed locally and probably sold to visitors, first appeared in 1804, reaching this tenth edition only two years later.
