First edition, large 8vo (240 x 155 mm), vi, 85, [1]pp., 200 copies printed, this being the only copy PRINTED ON VELLUM, title printed in red and black, marbled endpapers, bound in contemporary smooth light tan calf, both boards with gilt scrolled border in gilt and blind with central crest of Dawson Turner in blind, spine lettered in gilt direct with a decorative border, spine rubbed, joints cracked, all edges gilt. A unique copy specially printed on vellum and bound for the compiler Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, naturalist, patron of the Arts, antiquary and collector. In all these pursuits Dawson Turner excelled, he published usually at his own expense in very small editions, and on occasions had a special copy printed on vellum for himself, as here. There is a prefatory letter to the Rev. S. C. E. Neville Rolfe and Daniel Gurney, signed Dawson Turner, Yarmouth, September 1847. In this valuable work, the parishes are arranged in Deaneries, the data set out in tabular form. There are very full indexes of parishes, incumbents and patrons. The Rev. Strickland Charles Edward Neville Rolfe (1789-1852) was vicar of Heacham, and Daniel Gurney (1791-1880) was a well-known banker and antiquary of King's Lynn. It was these two gentlemen who obtained a transcript from the Episcopal Registers which made the present publication possible. Provenance: Sold as lot 2073 by Sotheby's at the auction of Dawson Turner's library in March of 1853.
