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[DOMESDAY BOOK.....SEU LIBER CENSUALIS WILLELMI PRIMA REGIS ANGLIA......]
1ST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE

Antiquarian Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 23 September 2000 from 12:00 BST
£345
Description
2 volumes, edited by Abraham Farley, printed without titles or indicies in specially created font by Joseph Jackson, volume 1: 382leaves; volume 2: pp450, (including some blanks, later rebacked calf boards, folio, [London, (John Nichols), 1783
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Footnote
*** Two further volumes were published in 1811 and 1816 containing the indicies and title-page and The Exeter Domesday. Only 1250 copies of this edition were printed at a cost of £38,000. The special font was destroyed ina fire in 1808.
