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OWNED BY A LEEDS BUTCHER WHOSE NAME IS PRINTED IN: General and Commercial Directory of The Borough of Leeds; Including the Out-Townships

William Parson
William Parson’s 1826 Leeds Directory, owned and inscribed by a Leeds butcher and a female family member also from a butchering family - both of… Read more
Published in 1839 by Edward Baines.
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William Parson’s 1826 Leeds Directory, owned and inscribed by a Leeds butcher and a female family member also from a butchering family - both of whom are referenced in the printed text.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONl: Small octavo bound in half black roan; fold out map of Leeds is present but detached. Signatures of ‘John Cockshott Farsley 1826’ and ‘Mary Ann Rushworth, Leeds, 1868’ to the front flyleaf. Cockshott’s name appears in the printed listings as a Farsley butcher at page 225 and ‘Rishworth, Wm, butcher 29, George Street’, Leeds appears at page 106. Both are highlighted with a pencil mark. The book was acquired privately after descending through members of the Cockshott family of Farsley for nearly 200 years.

CONTEXT: The Drectory is a mine of fascinating information with an Alphabetical Directory, Classification of Trades and The Street Key.


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Publisher Edward Baines
Date published 1839
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Product code 8699


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