MARC Record from University of Toronto

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090 09 $aB-10/9715$bRBSC$c1$dv.1-4
100 10 $aDefoe, Daniel,$d1661?-1731
245 02 $aA tour through the island of Great Britain,$bdivided into circuits or journies, containing, I. A description of the principal cities and towns ... II. The customs, manners, exercises, diversions, and employments of the people. III. The nature and virtue of the many medicinal springs ... IV. An ample description of London ... V. The produce and improvement of the lands, the trade, and manufactures. VI. The sea ports and fortifications, the course of rivers, and the inland navigation. VII. The public edifices, seats, and palaces of the nobility and gentry. VIII. The isles of Wight, Scilly, Portland, Jersey, Guernsey, and the other English and Scotish isles of most note. Interspersed with useful observations. Particularly fitted for the perusal of such as desire to travel over the island.$cOriginally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.
250 $aThe 8th ed., with great additions and improvements.
260 0 $aLondon,$bW. Strahan [etc.]$c1778.
300 $a4 v.$b2 fold. maps.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xDescription and travel
700 10 $aRichardson, Samuel,$d1689-1761
948 $a07/15/1992$b01/22/1993
949 $aB-10 09715$wASIS$c1$i34444011446788$lRAREBOOKS$mFISHER$rN$sY$tBOOK$u17/8/1994