The History of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresborough with Harrogate and It's Medicinal Springs: Including an Account of The Most remarkable Places, In the Neighbourhood; The curious Remains of Antiquity etc by E Hargrove - 1805

Hargrove and Sons, Knaresbrough, 1805. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Full Title: The History of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresborough with Harrogate and It's Medicinal Springs: Including an Account of The Most remarkable Places, In the Neighbourhood; The curious Remains of Antiquity; Elegant Buildings; Ornament Grounds; And Other Singular Productions of Nature and Art Bound in contemporary (to volume) darkened blue boards with black lettering on the spine, split front joint (cover attached by cords), cracked rear joint, loss of spine cover for approx. 3cm at bottom and tear in spine cover about 3cm from the top. Sound inner binding, darkend end-papers. Front end-paper and frontis have both been trimmed by about 2cm at lower edge, The Dropping Well illustration of the frontis is outwith the trimmed area. Folded colour map facing first page of text (page 13) has short tear of about 1 cm adjacent to the gutter. Pages are clean but a little darkened at the untrimmed edges. Colour folded map showsThe Seal of the Honour of Knaresborough, Market Towns, Parishes, Villages & Hamlets, Churches & Chapels, Seats & noted Houses, Turnpike Roads, Other Roads, Parks, Rivers. Plates are: The Dropping Well; Ruins of the King's Tower in the Castle of Knaresborough; St. Robert's Chapel, Knaresburgh; The Gateway of the Priory at Knaresborough (trimmed on vertical edge); Medal of the Yorkshire Archers; Fountains Abbey from the S. W. ; Spofford Castle; Obelisks at B Bridge. Vignettes of: Plan of Knaresbrough; Byrnand-Hall Cross; Arms of the Earl of Cornwall; Ancient enclosure on Thornborough-Moor; Sepulchral monument at Ribstone; Hell-hole rock near Plumpton; Plan of Aldburgh; Urn from Ellinthorp; Votive Stone fromEllinthorp; The Circus Maximus at Rome; plus various footers. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50318061156..