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A Popular History of Bristol, ... from the earliest period to the present time, with biographical notices of eminent natives and residents, impartially written

George Pryce · 1861 · Scanned text

263,086 words · about 18 h 25 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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Author
George Pryce
Language
English
Published
1861
Length
263,086 words · about 18 h 25 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Preface about 15 h 52 min
  3. Appendix about 2 h 33 min

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Front matter

A. POPULAR HISTORY OF BRISTOL, ANTIQUARIAN, TOPOGRAPHICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE, Jfrrat % €mlmt to t\t present % m, WITH BIOGKAPHICAL NOTICES OF EMINENT NATIVES AND EESIDENTS, IsMPA.RTIALI/Sr "WRITTEN. BY GEOBGE PRYCE, F.S.A., AUTHOR OP "NOTES OX THE ECCLESIASTICAL AND MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE Or THE MIDDLE AGES IN BRISTOL;" "MEMORIALS OP THE CANYNGES' FAMILY AND THEIR TIMES ; WESTBURY COLLEGE, REDCLIFPE CHURCH, AND CHATTERTON;" "FACT versus FICTION— A DESCENT AMONG WRITERS ON BRISTOL HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY," ETC, ETC. BRISTOL : PUBLISHED BY W. MACK, BOOKSELLER, STATIONER, & PRINTER, £2, WINE STREET. 1861. Bristol : Printed by W. MACK, 52, Wine Street. TO THE CITIZENS OF BEISTOL, OF ALL CLASSES, THIS WORK IS EESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY THEIR OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE AUTHOR

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