Front matter
Reading edition
Transcribed from the John Davies, Fourth Edition (1855) by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
A GUIDE, DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL, THROUGH THE TOWN OF SHREWSBURY,
INTERSPERSED WITH BRIEF NOTICES OF THE MORE
REMARKABLE OBJECTS IN THE ENVIRONS,
TO WHICH ARE APPENDED, LISTS OF THE EMINENT NATIVES OF THE TOWN, WITH REFERENCES TO BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS;
OF THE BIRDS SEEN IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD;
AND OF THE RARER SPECIES OF PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO THE VICINITY.
BY THE REV. W. A. LEIGHTON, B.A. F.B S.E. AUTHOR OF “A FLORA OF SHROPSHIRE,” &c.
“I held on way to auncient Shrewsebrie towne, And so from horse at lodging lighting downe, I walkt the streats, and markt what came to vewe.”
Churchyard.
FOURTH EDITION. Illustrated with Sixty=one Engravings on Wood.
SHREWSBURY: PUBLISHED BY JOHN DAVIES, XV. HIGH STREET. SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.
“Without aiming to be great—we aspire only to be useful.”
Dr. Butler’s Inaugural Address, 1835.