Item STK/2/58 - Proposals for Printing by Subscription the Picturesque Views and Scenery of Edinburgh, by John Knox.

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STK/2/58

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Proposals for Printing by Subscription the Picturesque Views and Scenery of Edinburgh, by John Knox.

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  • 1 March 1788 (Creation)

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(1753-1834)

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William Strickland was born in Boynton, Yorkshire, in 1753, the son of George Strickland and Elizabeth Letitia Winn. He married Henrietta Chlomley in 1778. They had thirteen children: Henrietta (b. 1779), Walter (b.1780, d. 1798), Caroline (b. 1781), George (b.1782), Arthur (b.1784), Edmund (b. 1785), Eustachius (b.1787), Emma (b.1789), Anne (b. 1790), John (b.1794), Priscilla (b. 1796), Isabella (b. 1799) and Nathanial Constantine (b.1802).
He died in 1834.

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Proposals for Printing by Subscription the Picturesque Views and Scenery of Edinburgh, of its environs and of the River Forth, from the Sea to some Miles above Stirling; with separate views of the principle ruins; the whole upon a scale of 25inches by 18. By John Knox.

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    Acc 146.3.58

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