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- 1800 (Creation)
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76 ff. (including 37 ff. of blotting paper interleaves, 21 of which are blank) ; 185 x 115 mm.
Quarter leather and marbled paper over card covers; 'Notes taken at Chemical Lectures delivered at the Laboratory Room Trinity College Dublin by Rector Robert Perceval M.D. Professor of Chemistry in Dublin College November the 20th 1799' (ink on front cover).
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Journal of a tour of North East Wales and the North of England, 24 July-13 August 1800, by the Rev. Thomas Prior, travelling with his friend Ja[me]s Bessonnet.
The volume describes the voyage from Dublin and along the North Wales coast and the disembarkation by boat in the vicinity of Llandudno (ff. 1 verso-6), followed by visits to Abergele (ff. 6 recto-verso), St Asaph (ff. 8-9, 11), Holywell (ff. 13-15), Chester (ff. 17-23), Liverpool (ff. 25 verso-31), Manchester (ff. 33 verso-51), Buxton (ff. 51 verso-59 verso), Leeds (ff. 69-71), York (ff. 71 verso-75 verso) and Harrogate (inside back cover). The leaves of blotting paper are used mostly for notes and for an account of expenditure for [26 July]-31 August (ff. 9 verso-10 verso, 12 recto-verso); this account, together with the reference to Westmoreland and Cumberland on f. 1, demonstrates that the journal is incomplete.
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- English
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English.
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- Bessonnet, James (Subject)