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 THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND The VICTORIA HISTORY is a National Historic Survey compiled under the direction of a large staff comprising the foremost students m science, history and archaeology, and is designed to record the history of every county of England in detail. This v^rork vi^as approved by our late Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, v^^ho graciously gave it her own name. It is the endeavour of those who are associated in compiling the VICTORIA HISTORY to treat it as a scientific undertaking and to embody in it all that modern scholarship can contribute. And it is believed that the system of co-operation between experts and local students, which is the funda- mental principle of the whole work, will give to the History a completeness and definite authority hitherto lacking in similar undertakings. His Majesty's Government, in recognition of the educational and statistical value of the History, has placed all the Government publications freely at the disposal of the editorial staff. The VICTORIA HISTORY as projected comprises i6o large volumes, and already numbers many hundreds of selected contributors to its pages in all parts of the country. The price of the complete set of i6o Volumes is ^^252 net. There are also forty supplementary Volumes of Genealogy — one for each county — containing the pedigrees of all families that have been pos- sessed of a seat and an estate in the male line since the first year of George III. These Volumes are issued at £^ 5/. net each. The History of each county is obtainable separately, and the number ot volumes and the prices for each county are here appended. LIST OF COUNTIES Counties No. of Vols. Price in Counties No. of Vols. Price in not exceeding Guiueas not exceeding Guineas Bedford 3 5 Lincoln 4 6 Berks 4 6 Middlesex 4 6 Bucks 4 6 Monmouth 4 6 Cambridge 3 5 Norfolk 6 9 Chester 4 6 Northampton 4 6 Cornwall 4 6 Northumberland 4 6 Cumberland 4 6 Nottingham ... 4 6 Derby 4 6 Oxford 4 6 Devon 4 6 Rutland 2 3 Dorset 4 6 Salop 4 6 Durham 4 6 Somerset 4 6 Essex 4 6 Stafford 4 6 Gloucester 4 6 Suffolk 4 6 Hants 4 6 Surrey 4 6 Hereford 4 6 Sussex 4 6 Hertford 4 6 Warwick 4 6 Huntingdon 2 Westmorland 2 3 Kent 5 Wilts 4 6 Lancaster 5 Worcester 4 6 Leicester 4 6 York 8 12 METHODS OF PAYMENT Payment may be made on receipt of each Volume as delivered, or in instalments by annual banker's order (in which case the price for a complete set is £2^0) as preferred. Orders will be entered by any bookseller in town or country. The Volumes are bound in stout cloth gilt. They may however be obtained very handsomely bound in half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, price £1 us. 64. extra per volume.