The history and antiquities of Staffordshire. Compiled from the manuscripts of Huntbach, Loxdale, Bishop Lyttelton, and other collections of Dr. Wilkes. The Rev. T. Feilde, &c. &c. including Erdeswick's survey of the county; and the approved parts of Dr. Plot's natural history. The whole brought down to the present time; interspersed with pedigrees and anecdotes of families; observations on agriculture, commerce, mines, and manufactories; and illustrated with a very full and correct new map of the county, agri staffordiensis icon, and numerous other plates. By the Rev. Stebbing Shaw, B.D. F.A.S. and fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge. ... . Containing the antient and modern history of thirty parishes in the hundred of offlow, arranged geographically, with an appendix of the most curious charters, &c. illustrated with sixty-two copper plates, and a copious index

People / Organizations

• Nichols, Red ("printed for")
• Stebbing Shaw (Author)

Imprint

London : printed by and for J. Nichols, Red Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street. Sold also by J. Robson, New Bond-Street; T. Payne, Mews-Gate; J. White, Fleet-Street; and all the principal booksellers in Staffordshire and the adjoining counties, M.DCC.XCVIII. [1798]-1801.

Publication year

1798-1801

ESTC No.

T149642

Grub Street ID

195631

Description

2v.,plates,tables : ill.,maps ; 2°.

Note

With a list of subscribers in vol.1

Vol.2, dated 1801, is "Volume II. Part I."

No more published

The 'Appendix to Burton-upon-Trent' in vol.1 has separate pagination and register; the 'Additions and corrections to the general history, &c. in vol.I.' and 'Appendix of additions and corrections to the parochial history, volume I. and II.' have separate pagination and register

Several prospectuses were issued at various times: 'History

& antiquities of Staffordshire', [Derby, 1793?], 'Proposals for publishing by subscription The history and antiquities of Staffordshire', [London], 1793, and another similarly titled, [London, 1793]

The 'A series of engravings from Shaw's History of Staffordshire, with a set of the unpublished plates, with were prepared for the continuation' was published in London in [1842?]

Some proof sheets, pp.291-326, to continue vol.2 exist.