A concise and accurate description of the university, town, and county of Cambridge : containing a particular history of the colleges and public buildings, their founders and benefactors

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A concise and accurate description of the university, town, and county of Cambridge : containing a particular history of the colleges and public buildings, their founders and benefactors

anonymous

(Cambridge library collection, . Cambridge)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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A concise and accurate description of the university, town, and county of Cambridge : containing a particular history of the colleges and public buildings, ... to which is added, an exact account of the roads, poſts, ... Illuſtrated with ſeveral neat views ...

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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso

Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge : printed by J. Archdeacon, printer to the University; for J. & J. Merrill, bookſellers, [1790]

"The volume includes a supplement published in the same year which gives a 'catalogue of the several pictures in the public library and respective colleges, in the University of Cambridge'"--[front page]

Contains 4 pages and 8 leaves of plates

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  • A catalogue of the several pictures in the public library and respective colleges, in the University of Cambridge : intended as a companion to the Concise and accurate description of the University and town, &c / by a gentleman of the University

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This anonymous guide to Cambridge, printed in 1790, is full of fascinating details which give insights into life in the university and the town at the end of the eighteenth century. It contains a history of the colleges (with lists of their benefactors and 'bishops and eminent men') and public buildings; details of the university officers, term dates and prizes; descriptions of the town, its situation, buildings, markets and fairs, and the county, its towns, villages, seats of the nobility and gentry, topography and agriculture; timetables and fares for the various stagecoaches which kept Cambridge in touch with the wider world; and a gazetteer showing the distance from Cambridge to London and other major towns and cities. The volume includes a supplement published in the same year which gives a 'catalogue of the several pictures in the public library and respective colleges, in the University of Cambridge'.

Table of Contents

  • 1. The university
  • 2. Cambridge
  • 3. Cambridge county.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB01866293
  • ISBN
    • 9781108000659
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge [England]
  • Pages/Volumes
    149, 29 p., [12] leaves of plates
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Classification
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