Title	A Compleat History of Somersetshire
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Author	Stuckey J
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Binding & Condition	Contemporary speckled calf. Spine with six raised bands and red morocco title label. Two leaves at the rear of volume in closely matching facsimile have been neatly inserted; worming to lower blank margins mainly to the early and late pages and not affecting the text.
Book plates & labels	Two bookplates to the front pastedown, one being an eighteenth century plate of Anne Hervy Mildmay, the other a modern Laurence family plate.
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Stuckey (John). A Compleat History of Somersetshire (containing Geographical Description; Natural History; Ecclesiastical History of Bath &Wells and Bristol; Antiquities; Gentlemen’s Seats; Famous Men; Sufferings of the Clergy in Rebellious Times; Names of Towns and Villages and the Charity Schools) To which is added a scheme of all the Market-Towns, &c. with their distance from London, and from each other, &c. Published in Sherborne, 1742.

Attributed to John Stuckey of Sutton Court near Bristol and reprinted from the Magna Britannica of 1727. The Geographical Description comprises 118 pages with detailed entries on towns and villages, large and small.

Contemporary speckled calf. Spine with six raised bands and red morocco title label, folio, 360 x 230 mm (14 x 9 inches) all edges speckled - 206pp. (originally issued in 52 parts with the 'Sherborne Mercury'). Two bookplates to the front pastedown, one being an eighteenth century plate of Anne Hervy Mildmay, the other a modern Laurence family plate.

Two leaves at the rear of volume in closely matching facsimile have been neatly inserted; worming to lower blank margins mainly to the early and late pages and not affecting the text.

THIS VOLUME IS SCARCE. I FOUND ONLY ONE OTHER ORIGINAL ANTIQUE COPY FOR SALE ON THE INTERNET. MY COPY IS £100 LESS.

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ABE 23/1/14 One Copy

A Compleat History of Somersetshire. Containing 1. A Geographical Description of the County, in alphabetical order.To which is added a Scheme of all the Market-Towns, etc.
John Stuckey
Bookseller: Victoria Bookshop (Nr . Tavistock, DEV, United Kingdom) Price: £ 491.80
Book Description: Sherborne, Sherborne, 1742. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fair. First edition. 206 p. ; some pages laid down, some reinforced, double collumned.Vellum spine hasw tears.

ABE 23/1/14 One Copy

A Compleat History of Somersetshire. Containing 1. A Geographical Description of the County, in alphabetical order.To which is added a Scheme of all the Market-Towns, etc.
John Stuckey
Bookseller: Victoria Bookshop (Nr . Tavistock, DEV, United Kingdom) Price: £ 491.80
Book Description: Sherborne, Sherborne, 1742. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fair. First edition. 206 p. ; some pages laid down, some reinforced, double collumned.Vellum spine hasw tears.