Bibliography and glossary for Prior to Now

Bibliography

Enumerative bibliography

1822 Pigot’s Directory, Somerset and Bristol

1875 Institution of Civil Engineers: Obituaries

2011 Census Ethnic Group, local authorities in the United Kingdom

A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland edited by A. W. Skempton (2002)

A biographical peerage of Ireland, in which are memoirs and characters of the most celebrated persons of each family by Sir Egerton Brydges (1817)

A catalogue of a very large and valuable collection of books; including the libraries of R. Cust and of T. Waldgrave. The books will begin selling Feb. 1785 Payne Thomas and son (1785)

A catalogue of the Subscription Library, at Kingston upon Hull, Subscription Library at Kingston upon Hull (1822)

A Century Of Change: Trends In UK Statistics Since 1900 By Joe Hicks & Grahame Allen, Social And General Statistics Section, House Of Commons Library (1999)

A century of labour market change: 1900 to 2000 by Craig Lindsay, Labour Market Division, Office for National Statistics

A Compendium of Irish Biography (1878)

A Description of Bath by John Wood (1745)

A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852 by Sir Bernard Burke (1852)

A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume I by John Burke (1897)

A Genealogical And Heraldic History Of The Commoners Of Great Britain And Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank But Uninvested With Heritable Honours, Volume 2 by John Burke (1835)

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank by John Burke (1834)

A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours, Volume I by John Burke (1834)

A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume I by John Burke (1833)

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland by Sir Bernard Burke (1834)

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland: Volume 1 by Sir Bernard Burke (1871)

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Or, Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Etc. Volume IV by John Burke (1836)

A Genealogical and Heraldic Histoy of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank, Volume IV by John Burke (1838)

A Guide to the Knowledge of Bath, Ancient and Modern by John Earle (1864)

A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire and Somersetshire by John Murray (publishers) (1869)

A history of Bath, Image and Reality by Graham Davis and Penny Bonsall (2006)

A History of The Fullers’ Earth Mining Industry Around Bath by Neil Macmillen with Mike Chapman (2009)

A list of the country banks of England and Wales, private and proprietary; also of the names of all the shareholders of joint-stock banks [&c.] (1838)

A new gazetteer; or topographical dictionary of the British islands and narrow seas, Volume II by James A. Sharp (1852)

A new guide through Bath, and its environs by Reverend Richard Warner (1811)

A picturesque guide to Bath, Bristol hot-wells, the river Avon, and the adjacent country by Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1793)

A Picturesque Guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells, the River Avon, and the Adjacent Country; Illustrated with a Set of Views, Taken in the Summer of 1792; by Mess. Ibbetson, Laporte, and J. Hassell; and Engraved in Aquatinta (1793)

A Selection from unpublished papers of The Right Rweverend William Warburton by by Reverend Francis Kilvert (1841)

A Topographical Dictionary of England Volume I by Samuel Lewis (1831)

A Topographical Dictionary of England Volume IV by Samuel Lewis (1839)

A topographical history of Surrey, by E.W. Brayley assisted by J. Britton and E.W. Brayley, jun. The geological section by G. Mantell and Edward Wedlake Brayley (1841)

An Apology for the Bath by Thomas Guidott (1708)

An authentic Description of the Kennet and Avon Canal. To which are added, observations upon the present state of the inland navigation of the South-Western Counties of England, etc (1811)

An Historical Guide to Monkton Combe, Combe Down, and Claverton by D. Lee Pitcairn, Alfred Richardson (1924)

Annals of Bath, from 1800 to the passing of the new municipal act by Rowland Mainwaring (1838)

Annual Register or a View of the History, Politics and Literature of the Year 1827 (1828)

Around Combe Down, Peter Addison (1998)

Bath and Bristol, with the counties of Somerset and Gloucester displayed in a series of views by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd and John Britton (1829)

Bath and Bristol, with the counties of Somerset and Gloucester, drawings by T.H. Shepherd, with historical and descriptive illustrations by John Britton

Bath Fire Brigade and Ambulance Service, 1891-1974: An Illustrated History by Dennis Hill (2003)

British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After by Norman Friedman (2006)

British Economic Growth 1270-1870 by Alexander Apostolides, Stephen Broadberry, Bruce Campbell, Mark Overton, Bas van Leeuwen (2011)

British Weights And Measures As Described In The Laws Of England From Anglo-Saxon Times by Colonel Sir C. M. Watson K.C.M.G., C.B., M.A. (1910)

Building societies: a descriptive study by Mark Boléat (1981)

Burdett’s Hospitals and Charities: Being the Year Book of Philanthropy by Sir Henry C. Burdett (1919)

Central Criminal Court. Minutes of Evidence, Great Britain. Central Criminal Court, Volume XII by Henry Buckler (1839)

Collections, Illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion by George Oliver (1857)

Collections, Illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion: In the Counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, and Gloucester by Ge Oliver (1857)

Combe Down History by Miss A. W. Ellison et al and Gwen Coombs

Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady’s Magazine, Volume VIII (1836)

Critical & Miscellaneous Essays of Sir Walter Scott, Volume III (1841)

Das gelehrte England by Jeremias David Reuss (1804)

Debrett’s Baronetage of England by John Debrett, William Courthope (1835)

Debrett’s Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume II by John Debrett (1828)

Debrett’s Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen and John Debrett (1840)

Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 22 by William Prideaux Courtney

Discovering Horse-drawn Vehicles by D. J. Smith (1994)

Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales 1861-1900 by Dudley Baines (2003)

Examiner: A Weekly Paper on Politics, Literature, Music and the Fine Arts (1842)

Famous Houses of Bath & District by John Francis Meehan (1901)

Farther excursions of the observant pedestrian, exemplified in a tour to Margate, by the author of the ‘Observant pedestrian’, Volume IV (1801)

Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire by Bernard Burke (1864)

Great Britain Illustrated by Thomas Moule (1830)

Great Britain illustrated by William Westall (1831)

Gye’s Bath directory, corrected to Jan. 1819 by H. Gye (1820)

Historic Houses in Bath by R. E. M Peach (1883)

History of the British Colonies: Possessions in North America, Volume III by Robert Montgomery Martin (1834)

Hopecote, A History Of A Building, Jean Nisbett 1991

Hunt & co.’s directory & court guide for the cities of Bath, Bristol, & Wells, Hunt E. and co (1848)

Introduction to Northanger Abbey by Austin Dobson (Macmillan, 1897)

Introduction to the original delineations entitled The beauties of England and Wales, Volume I by James Norris Brewer (1801)

Journals of the House of Commons Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Volume 101 (1846)

Journals of the House of Commons: Volume 101, Part 1 Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1846)

Journals of the House of Lords, Volume XLVI1I, Great Britain House of Lords (1810)

Journals of the House of Lords, Volume XXVI, Great Britain House of Lords, (1741)

Kearsley’s Complete peerage, of England, Scotland and Ireland by George Kearsley, Volume II (1799)

Kelly’s Directory of Somerset 1902

Letters and Papers on Agriculture, Planting, &c Bath & West of England Society for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures and commerce, Volume IX (1799)

Letters from a late eminent prelate to one of his friends by William Warburton (1809)

London of to-day, an illustrated handbook (1774)

Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity by Janine Barchas (2012)

Memoirs of the Geological Survey [of] England & Wales, Volume 15, H.M. Stationery Office, 1876

Memoirs of the life and character of the late John Paul Porter by Philip Cater (1834)

Memoirs of the life and writings of the Right Rev. Richard Hurd by The Rev. Francis Kilvert (1860)

Memoirs of William Smith, author of the “Map of the strata of England and Wales” by John Phillips (1844)

Merchant Taylors’ School register, 1561-1934, Volume 1. Printed for the Merchant’s Taylors’ Co. by the Eastern Press, 1936

Mining Records by Robert Hunt (1859)

Mnemonika or the Tablet of memory. Being a register of events from the earliest period to the year 1829. The matter furnished by William Darby. Revised, with additions, by the publisher (Edward J. Coale) and other persons by William Darby (Surveyor.) (1829)

Monthly Magazine and British Register, Volume XXX. Part II (1810)

Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register, Volume 53 (1822)

Narratives Illustrative of the Contests in Ireland 1641 and 1690 by Thomas Crofton Croker (1841)

Newton’s London Journal of Arts and Sciences Volume VI The Repertory of Patent Inventions, and Other Discoveries and Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture by W. Newton (1835)

Newton’s London Journal of Arts and Sciences Volume XL by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1828)

Notices Relating to Thomas Smith of Campden, and to Henry Smith, Sometime Alderman of London by Charles Perkins Gwilt (1836)

Nottinghamshire – Somersetshire by Thomas Cox, Anthony Hall, Robert Morden (1738)

Old Weights And Measures, Jim Andre (2008)

Papers Presented to the House of Commons on the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade; &c. &c Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1804) G.26 Return of Increase and Decrease of Slaves in the Parish of Saint James

Parterson’s Road Being a new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain by Edward Mogg (1822)

Peerage of England, Volume IX by Sir Egerton Brydges (1812)

Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage by Charles Roger Dod (1848)

Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, Volume 15 by Charles Roger Dod (1855)

Principles of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell (1872)

Principles of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell (1872)

Prior Park College, The Phoenix by Peter Cornwell (2005)

Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1799 – 1800 (1807)

Railway Economy by Dionysius Lardner (1850)

Ralph Allen and Prior Park by Reverend Francis Kilvert (1856)

Ralph Allen by Diana Winsor (2010)

Ralph Allen’s own narrative 1720-1761 by Adrian E. Hopkins (1960)

Rambles about Bath, and its neighbourhood by James Tunstall (1847)

Report From The Select Committee On Timber Duties, The House of Commons (1835)

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery during the time of Lord Chancellar Eldon, Volume II by James Russell (1826 – 1827)

Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery [1846-1852], Volume V by John P. De Gex and John Smale (1853)

Reports of cases in chancery, decided by Lord Cottenham [1846-1848] Great Britain. Court of Chancery (1848)

Reports of Cases in the Law of Real Property & Conveyancing, Volume II 1845 – 1848 (1848)

Reports of The Commissioners Of Military Enquiry, The House of Commons (1810 – 1811)

Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons, Volume 19 (1836)

Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons, Volume 24 (1836)

Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons, Volume 38 (1806)

Somersetshire delineated by C. and J. Greenwood (1822)

Standards of Living 1700-1870 by Şevket Pamuk and Jan Luiten van Zanden

Story of Jane Austen’s Life by Oscar Fay Adams (1891)

The Accomplish’d Conveyancer by Giles Jacob (1750)

The Annual peerage of the British empire, Volume II ed. by A., E., and M. Innes (1829)

The Annual Register (1801)

The Annual Register by Edmund Burke (1831)

The Athenæum (1842)

The beauties of England and Wales of each county, by J. Britton and E. W. Brayley [and others]. 18 vols. (1812)

The beauties of England and Wales; or, Delineations of each county, Volume XIII by J. Britton and E. W. Brayley [and others] (1813)

The Benevolent Man, A Life of Ralph Allen of Bath by Benjamin Boyce (1967)

The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1857)

The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950: Regions and Communities by Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson (1993)

The Cambridge University Calendar, University of Cambridge, 1897

The Catholic Directory and Annual Register for the Year (1838)

The Catholic Directory and Annual Register for the Year 1840: Volumes 3-4, C. Dolman, Publisher

The chronicle of William de Rishanger, of the Barons’ Wars by John Orchard Halliwell (1840)

The County Families of the United Kingdom Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland Containing a Brief Notice of the Descent, Birth, Marriage, Education, and Appointments of Each Person, His Heir Apparent Or Presumptive, as Also a Record of the Offices which He Has Hitherto Held, Together with His Town Address and Country Residence by Edward Walford (1871)

The course of studies and method of instruction in the colleges of ss. Peter and Paul, Prior Park by Peter Augustine Baines (bp. of Siga.) (1838)

The diary of a Suffolk farmer’s wife, 1854-69: a woman of her time, Sheila M. Hardy, Elizabeth Cotton (1992)

The doctrine of the Bible; or Rules of discipline; briefly gathered through the whole Course of the Scripture, by way of question and answer. A new edition corrected by James Trevena Coulton (1805)

The Ecclesiastical Census of 1851, and Its Results (1854)

The English Counties Delineated by Thomas Moule (1837)

The Examiner Issues 523-574 by Leigh Hunt

The Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle, for the Year by Sylvanus Urban, Gent. Volume XCIX (1829)

The Gentleman’s Magazine by Sylvanus Urban, Gent. Volume LXXVII (1807)

The Gentleman’s Magazine by Sylvanus Urban, Gent. Volume XCVII (1827)

The Gentleman’s Magazine by Sylvanus Urban, Gent. Volume XIII (1840)

The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle (1796)

The Gentleman’s Magazine, And Historical Chronicle (1827)

The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle by Sylvanus Urban, Gent. Volume XVIII (1842)

The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year by Edward Cave, John Nichols (1864)

The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year by Sylvanus Urban, Gent. Volume CI (1831)

The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year by Sylvanus Urban, Gent. Volume XXXV (1851)

The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, Volume XCII (1822)

The Gloucestershire directory, by R. Gell & T. Bradshaw (1820)

The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire, Volume I by William Phelps (1836)

The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, Volume 1 by George Lipscomb (1847)

The History and Antiquities of the county of Somerset by John Collinson, Edmund Rack (1791)

The History and Antiquities of the county of Somerset, Volume III by John Collinson (1791)

The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, With a Map and Engravings by John Collinson (1791)

The History of Banking by William John Lawson (1850)

The History of Cornwall, Civil, Military, Religious, Architectural, Agricultural, Commercial, Biographical, and Miscellaneous by Richard Polwhele, John Whitaker (1816)

The History of Somerset Yeomanry, Volunteer and Territorial Units W. G. Fisher (1924)

The History of the Post Office by Herbert Joyce (1893)

The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert’s) 1914-1919 by Everard Wyrall (1927)

The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543. Edited by Lucy Toulmin Smith

The Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply, & Sanitary Improvement (1865)

The Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply, & Sanitary Improvement (1872)

The Jurist, Volume II, Part II (1856)

The Jurist, Volume XII, Part II (1848)

The landscape album; or, Great Britain illustrated by William Westall, Thomas Moule (1834)

The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches 1898 – 2009 by Harry Patch, Richard van Emden (2009)

The Law Advertiser, Volume VIII (1830)

The Legal Observer Or Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume XI (1836)

The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume XXIX (1845)

The life and times of Ralph Allen of Prior Park, Bath, introduced by a short account of Lyncombe and Widcombe, with notices of his contemporaries, including Bishop Warburton, Bennet of Widcombe House, Beau Nash, etc. by R.E. M. Peach (1895)

The Life and Times of William Warburton by Reverend John Selby Watson (1863)

The London Journal of Arts and Sciences, Volume IX The Repertory of Patent Inventions, and Other Discoveries and Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture by W. Newton (1837)

The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester (2002)

The Mechanics’ Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, Volume XXII (1835)

The Medical Register (1868)

The medical register:printes and published under the direction of the general council of medical education and registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to an act passed in the year XXI&XXII, victori (1871)

The Mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction, Volume XXV by Reuben Percy (1835)

The Monthly Magazine, Part II (1816)

The Monthly Magazine, Volume X, Part II by Sir Richard Phillips (1800)

The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and literature (1813)

The New Bath Directory, for the Year, 1792 by W. Gye

The New Bath Guide; Or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d Family. In a Series of Poetical Epistles by Christopher Anstey (1779)

The New Bath Guide by Christopher Anstey (1767)

The new Bath guide: or, Memoirs of the B-r-d family, in a series of poetical epistles [by C. Anstey]. Epilogue by Christopher Anstey (1772)

The New Bath Guide; Or, Useful Pocket Companion by A. Taylor (1799)

The Original Bath Guide considerably enlarged and improved, etc printed by Mary Meyler (1834)

The Original Bath Guide considerably enlarged and improved, etc, Meyler & Son (1842)

The Original Bath Guide, Considerably Enlarged and Improved, Comprehending Every Species of Information that Can be Required by the Visitor and Inhabitant, Etc. [With Maps and Plates.] by Meyler & son (1811)

The peerage of the British empire as at present existing. To which is added the baronetage by Edmund Lodge (1832)

The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Difussion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Difussion of Useful Knowledge (1841)

The Philosophical Magazine and Journal Volume LIII (1819)

The Philosophical Magazine or Annals of Chemistry, Mathematics, Astronomy, Natural History, and General Science by Richard Taylor and Richard Phillips, Volume IX (1831)

The Philosophical Magazine: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Applied Physics, Volume 9 (1831)

The Pictorial National Library, Volume I (1848)

The Register of Admissions to Gray’s Inn, 1521-1889

The Repertory of Patent Inventions and other Discoveries & Improvements in Arts, Manufactures and Agriculture Volume VII (1837)

The Rise of the English Town, 1650-1850 by Christopher Chalklin (2001)

The Russian Rockefellers: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil Industry by Robert W. Tolf (1976)

The Sanitarian, Volume 45, A. N. Bell (1900)

The Second Part of The Modern Conveyancer (1725)

The Spiritual Quixote, Or, The Summer’s Ramble of Mr. Geoffrey Wildgoose by Richard Graves (1816)

The Statutes at Large From The Fifth Year Of The Reign Of King George The Third To The Tenth Year Of The Reign Of King George The Third, Inclusive (1771)

The Thespian Dictionary (1805)

The triflers. To which is added, The rout, also The farmer’s son by Richard Graves (1805)

The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, Part I (1839)

The Vectis directory, or Isle of Wight general guide (1839)Aquæ Solis, or Notices of Roman Bath by Henry Mingden Scarth (1864)

The wandering patentee by Tate Wilkinson (1795)

The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, Lord Bishop of Gloucester (1795)

Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, Volume XXXIV (1821)

Walks Through Bath by Pierce Egan (1819)

Wells and Springs of Somerset, Linsdal Richardson, William Whitaker, H.M. Stationery Office (1928)