Yorkshire 1884 ed. Page Hull Quarterly & East Riding Portfolio, Vols. I and II

  
Edited by W G B Page. The Hull Quarterly and East Riding Portfolio, Vols. 1-4 January 1884 to December 1885. First Edition Hardcover A Brown & Sons Limited, 1884 Very Good Condition. For more pictures of this item scroll down to bottom... A Brown & Sons Limited, 1884.

A half-leather bound volume with banded spine and marbled covers of quarterly magazines covering a period of two years, front paper covers of each issue are bound-in, the last two quarters were published as one issue. Includes black and white plates and inset illustrations. Leather and covers are lightly rubbed at edges, bumped corners, sound binding, clean marbled end-papers, blue issue paper covers are a little darkened with light wear at some edges of some, clean pages. Articles include: January 1984: The Plate and Insignia of the Hull Corporation by Alderman Kelburne King; Some Scraps of Holderness Folk-Lore by Wm Henry Jones; The Influence of the Northmen on our Language by John Nicholson; Star Showers and Red Sub-Sets by A N Somerscales; William Wilberforce, a Biographical Sketch & Catalogue of Exhibition; The Meterology of Hull by William Lawton; The Johnson Mss Correspondence; The Old Walls of Hull; Notes Queries reviews etc.

April 1884: Cottingham Castle and Its Lords by C Staniland Wake; A Leaf From Local History, a Great Battle by T C Eastwood; The Song of Roland by Charles Mason; Intentional Oddity by C F Corlass; Memoir of Joseph Clarke by Rev. F B King; Hull's Greatest Member of Parliament (Henry Vane) by H P Roberts; Andrew Marvell's Bible by Rev. M G Watkins; Roman Altar to the Parcae Discovered at Lincoln by Rev. Edmund Venables; The Primrose by Philip MacMahon. July 1884: The Hedon Corporation Plate by Godfrey R Park; John Alcock LLD with a Few Notes on the Alcock Family by Geo.

J Gray; A Day in a French Village; The Meteorology of Hull by W Lawton; An Account of Kingston-Upon -Hull in 1761; The Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Societies' Visit to Hull. October 1884: Notes on a Few Ancient Tombs of the District by T Tindall Wildridge; An Account of Beverley; Portraits of Public Men by Chas S Whiting; Harold Hardrada's Invasion AD 1066 by Edward Lamplough; The Lords of Cottingham by C Staniland Wake; Thornton Abbey, Lincolnshire by H Grenville Montgomery; The Architectural Societies at Hull, Beverley and Burlington; The Presence of a Great Shadow by A N Somerscales; An Outline of the History of the Charterhouse, Hull by Jno Cook; Interesting Discovery at Somerby Near Brigg; Index.

January 1885: Some Ancient Crosses of Holderness by T Tindall Wildridge; Hull During the Seige, a Narrative of Troubled Times by Edward Lamplough; The Ancient Britons and the Lake Dwelling at Ulrome in Holderness by T M Evans; The Monastic Institutions of Hull and Its Vicinity by J J Sheahan. April 1885: The Late Mayoress, Mrs Albert Kate Rollit; Hull Corporation Plate; The Hymns of Andrew Marvell ascribed to Joseph Addison by Marie Hall; The Old Coaching Days by John Nicholson; Early Halifax by W Clucas; Dante Rossetti, Poet by R Curtin; A Letter from Hull During the Siege; Death of W A Gunnell. July and October 1885 (one issue): Durham by M W Whitfield; Scrutari by D D Lamplough; Letter on the Suppressed Friaries; Changes in Land and Sea by Chas S Whiting; Early Halifax by W Clucas; What is a Year? Angus Sadler of Hull, and the Boatswain of H. Book Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket: No Dust Jacket. No dust jacket, as published. More books and maps and sheet music.... BZDB4 Yorkshire, periodicals, newspapers, journals Yorkshire; British History; Music - scores for songs & vocal works; Newspapers.

Edited by W G B Page The Hull Quarterly and East Riding Portfolio, Vols.