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Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Repository of Art at 94 Market St had been established for the last 20 years. In 1817 Vittorio Zanetti supplied to Dunham Massey, Cheshire, a frame for a drawing 8 7 @ 3/6 ft. costing 1 10s, and Plate glass for do. 2218, 2 12s 6d. [D; Dunham Massey papers] In …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is hilly, and sandstone of good quality is quarried for building, and for repairing roads. The living is a rectory, valued in the … It has quarries of granite used for building, and some tin-mines, but the substratum of the greater part is a …
Survey of London
… and it is the earliest nonconformist school in London for which any detailed information is available. Three books of accounts for the school, for the period 1687 to 1745, are preserved at Southwark …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the error of Yarrell, the first name should be intended for the next species, which undoubtedly occurs in the Bristol … Bell Scotophilus pipistrellus. Not uncommon in old houses and caves. In some localities rarer than the next … Very common in fields and woods, though sometimes found in houses in the suburbs of towns. This species lays up stores …
A History of the County of Somerset
… abundance of individuals. Out of the 139 species recorded for the British Islands no less than 112 have been found in … and possibly one or two more may yet be added, such for instance as Vitrea lucida. The general facies of the … Castle Cary; scarce pellionella, Linn. Too abundant in houses fuscipunctella, Haw. Common everywhere pallescentella, …