A compendious gazetteer, or, Pocket companion to the royal palaces : with a description of the towns, villages, villas, and remarkable places, within sixteen miles of Windsor : pointing out whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, or rural beauty : with historical and biographical remarks, illustrated with a map.

Title & Author:

Edition:

The fourth edition, much enlarged.

Publication:

Windsor [Berkshire, England] : Printed and sold by C. Knight, Castle Street, 1801.

Description:

[2], 123, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm

Notes:
[Part 2] has special title page: A compendious gazetteer; or, A concise description of the towns, villages, and villas, in the environs of Windsor; accompanied with a map of the country, from fourteen to eighteen miles adjacent.
In 2 parts bound together with continuous paging.
Signatures: B-F¹², G²
Includes a list of publication printed and sold by Charles Knight at the back of the book.
Library copy: bound (2) with: The Windsor guide ... A new edition, corrected and much enlarged. Windsor [Berkshire, England] : Printed and sold by C. Knight, 1804.

Resources:
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Subject:

Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)
Kensington Palace (London, England)
Kew Palace (Kew, England)
Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, Londres, Angleterre)
Kensington Palace (Londres, Angleterre)
Kew Palace (London, England)
Palaces England London.
Palais Angleterre Londres.
Palaces.
Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead, England) Guidebooks.
England London.
England Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead)
Palaces Great Britain England London.

Form/genre:

Guidebooks.

Added entries:

Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, printer.
John Harris Collection.
England Windsor

Pocket companion to the royal palaces
Title on secont title page: Compendious gazetteer; or, A concise description of the towns, villages, and villas, in the environs of Windsor; accompanied with a map of the country, from fourteen to eighteen miles adjacent
Concise description of the towns, villages, and villas, in the environs of Windsor; accompanied with a map of the country, from fourteen to eighteen miles adjacent

Holdings:

Location: Library cage y harris 187182
Call No.: ID88B820
Status: Available

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