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Dugdale (Thomas). Curiosities of Great Britain, England & Wales Delineated, Historical, Entertaining & Commercial, Alphabetically arranged, 8 volumes, London, Edinburgh & Dublin: J. & F. Tallis, c.1846, decorative engraved title to each volume, 58 double-page engraved maps (lightly offset), with contemporary hand-colouring in outline, 184 engraved plates (including frontispieces), text leaves generally toned, pictorial bookplate of James Younger: Mount Melville to each volume, 1st volume with bookplate of D.M. Green, contemporary embossed cloth gilt, rubbed and lightly marked, spines faded with a little wear to ends, volume 1 cloth split along front joint with small tear to spine, 8vo (Qty: 8) This work can be found bound in anything between 3 and 11 volumes. The pagination is continuous throughout, permitting this variation to occur. This copy contains Dugdale's complete A-Z text of 1586 pages, plus an additional leaf at the end (appearing to be a corrected leaf for letter G but numbered pp.15[87]-88), but does not have the Alphabetical Chronology by Leonard Townsend sometimes found with it.