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Domesday Book. [Farley (Abraham, editor)], [Seu liber censualis Willelmi primi regis Angliæ], two volume set, editio princeps, [London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1783], no titles as issued, double-column, volume I with tipped-in contemporary manuscript leaf of transcripts -recto and verso, final leaf verso with inscribed contents, both presumably in the hand of Doraston, an 18th c owner, second-half 20th c cloth over boards, folio (48.5 x 30.5cm), (2)
Provenance: 1) William Mostyn Owen (c. 1742-1795), Welsh landowner and MP for Montgomeryshire (1774-95); each of the first leaves with dated presentation inscriptions to; 2) Jon: Doraston, 1789, with his ownership inscriptions and shelf number. 3) With Quaritch at some stage, original recto blank in volume I with their pencilled note. 4) Ralph Henry Carless Davis (1918-1991), Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of Birmingham (1970-84); both ffeps with ownership inscription dated 1958.
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