The Court and City Register, or Gentleman's Complete Annual Kalendar, For the Year 1771. Containing, I. New and Correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament. II. The Court Register. III. Lists of the Army, Navy, Universities, Public Offices, Hospitals, &c. With many Improvements, and the Additions of some new Lists
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London: Printed for J. Joliffe...[inter alia], n. d. 1771. 12mo, 140 x 82 mms., pp. [lxiv], [iii] - vi, 282, with separate title-page in red and black for Rider's British Merlin (London: R. and M. Brown), following general title-page, and the Rider section interleaved, attractively bound in full contemporary red morocco, very ornately gilt covers, gilt spine, all edges gilt; short tear in fore-margins of pp. 111 - 114, base of spine slightly chipped, spine a little creased, corners very slightly worn, but an attractive copy Rider's English Merlin is a separate publication of 60 pages inserted between the title-page of the Kalendar and its Index. It is separately catalogued in ESTC at T45011. ESTC N44471 locates copies of the Kalendar in Christ's College Cambridge, National Archives, National Trust, and York Minster. OCLC adds Bodleian, Aberdeen, University of Wales, Lampeter; Rutgers.
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- The Court and City Register, or Gentleman's Complete Annual Kalendar, For the Year 1771. Containing, I. New and Correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament. II. The Court Register. III. Lists of the Army, Navy, Universities, Public Offices, Hospitals, &c. With many Improvements, and the Additions of some new Lists
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- London: Printed for J. Joliffe...[inter alia], n. d. 1771
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