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Rider's British Merlin; For the Year of Our Lord God 1748. Being Bissextile or Leap Year. Adorn'd with Many Delightful and Useful Verities, Fitting all Capacities in the Lands of Great Britain's Monarchy. With Notes on Husbandry, Fairs, Marts, and Tables for many Necessary Uses. Compiled for his country's benefit by Cardinaus Rider, printed by R. Nutt.

This volume is fully bound in leather covered boards. Pasted onto the top left corner of the front paste down is a small label with "From the Library of Kenneth Monkman at Shandy Hall". Written adjacent is "Crofts notes" and underneath is "With about 30pp of contemporary Farm and other accounts etc.". Written in ink on the front free end-page is a list of fireplaces, rooms and dimensions. See the notes on the front and rear pages. Annotation to the text also.

Accession number CCWSH:0185
Category Book
Publisher Nutt, R.; The Company of Stationers
Date 1748
Dimensions height: 135 mm, width: 080 mm