"A grand city"" : ""life, movement and work"" : Bristol in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : essays in honour of Gerard Leighton, F.S.A.

Bristol : Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society, 2010. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Physical description: xxv, 428 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: H.G.M. Leighton, M.A., F.S.A. : an appreciation -- Bristol Cathedral life during the early eighteenth century / Joseph H. Bettey -- Pitt the Elder and the financial discomfiture of Norborne Berkeley, Lord Botetourt / William L.H. Evans -- Richmond House and the manor of Clifton / Roger H. Leech -- Paul Fisher, linen-draper and merchant, of Clifton Hill House / Annie M. Burnside and Sheila B. Brennan -- Thomas Goldney II and Thomas Goldney III : the creation of the Goldney estate / Peggy K. Stembridge -- Christ Church, City, its fabric and re-building during the eighteenth century / M.J. Crossley Evans -- Music at the Bristol chapel of the Countess of Huntingdon's connexion / Anthony J. ""Toby"" Parker -- The cemetery under the tower : Christ Church, Bristol and the destruction of St. Ewen's Church / Colin Godman and M.J. Crossley Evans -- The church of St. Thomas the Martyr : demolition and re-building 1786-1793 / Joseph H. Bettey --Blotting out Bristol : Humphry Repton's Royal Fort Red book / Michael J.H. Liversidge -- Jane Austen and Bristol / Dierdre Le Faye -- The Catholic question in Bristol public life 1820-1829 / John R. Stevens -- Parochial burials in Bristol in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, exemplified by Christ Church, City / M.J. Crossley Evans -- The restoration of the funerary hatchments and the royal coat of arms in Christ Church with St. Ewen, Bristol / Kate Woodgate-Jones -- Bristol and the foundation of its Madrigal Society / James Hobson -- Dr. Pusey : visitor to Bristol / Lorna F. Hughes -- ""A grand city"" : Kilvert and Bristol / John Toman -- Captain Francis George Irwin : his private press and his Rosicrucian rivals / Robert A. Gilbert -- They came, they stayed and they went : musicians in Bristol in the nineteenth century / Stephen Banfield -- Lovers of Dickens : the formative years of the Bristol and Clifton Dickens Society / Lionel R. Reeves -- The Society's archives : Gloucestershire archives D7996. Subjects: Bristol (England) History 18th century, 19th century; Bristol (England) Social life and customs 18th century.