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Polwhele (Richard)

  • 1760–1838
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Cornish clergyman based at Truro, who was also a historian and author of a seven-volume history of Cornwall.
Polwhele, Richard, The history of Cornwall [...], 7 vols, vol. 4: The civil and military history of Cornwall, with illustrations from Devonshire, London: printed for Law and Whittaker, 1816. 145 pp + 27 plates + pedigrees.  
Incl. original title page dated Exeter, 1806; consists of two parts (part 1, pp. 3-96, and part 2, pp. 97-147).
HathiTrust – Vols IV–VII: IV: <link>  : <link>
Polwhele, Richard, The history of Cornwall [...], 7 vols, vol. 5: The language, literature and literary characters of Cornwall, with illustrations from Devonshire, London: printed for Law and Whittaker, 1816. 207 pp + portrait.  
Incl. original title page dated London (printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies), 1806
HathiTrust – Vols IV–VII: V: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Polwhele, Richard, The history of Cornwall: civil, military, religious, architectural, agricultural, commercial, biographical ... a new edition ... in 7 volumes, 7 vols, London: printed for Law and Whittaker, 1816.  
Seven volumes in two parts, presented as a “new edition, corrected and enlarged”. The end result had a long publication history. The individual volumes were published over a period of time (1803, 1804, 1806, 1808, etc.); with the publication of the collective work in 1816, the original titles were cancelled in favour of new ones. Original title pages were still included. See Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, vol. 2: pp. 510–511.
Polwhele, Richard, The history of Cornwall [...], 7 vols, vol. 6: A Cornish-English vocabulary: a vocabulary of local names, chiefly Saxon, and a provincial glossary, London: printed for Law and Whittaker, 1816.  
Incl. original title page (Truro, printed by J. Tregoning, 1808; or in the copy linked to below: Truro, printed by W. Polyblank for Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-yeard, London, 1836).
HathiTrust – Vols IV–VII: Vocabulary: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Polwhele, Richard, The history of Cornwall: civil, military, religious, architectural, agricultural, commercial, biographical and miscellaneous, 7 vols, vol. 2: Book II: from Vortigern to Edward I, ch. 1–4, London: printed for Law and Whittaker, 1816. 224 pp + 9 plates + 8 gen. tables.  
Incl. original title page dated Falmouth, 1803.
HathiTrust – Vols I–III: vol. II: <link>
Polwhele, Richard, The history of Cornwall [...], 7 vols, vol. 7: in respect of the population, and the health, strength, activity, longeviy, and diseases of its inhabitants, with illustrations from Devonshire; corr. and add.; index, London: printed for Law and Whittaker, 1816.  
Incl. original title page (Truro: printed at the Cornish Press, by J. Tregoning, for Cadell and Davies, in the Strand, London 1806).
HathiTrust – Vols IV–VII: Vocabulary: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Polwhele, Richard, and John Whittaker [suppl.], The history of Cornwall: civil, military, religious, architectural, agricultural, commercial, biographical and miscellaneous, 7 vols, vol. 3: Book II: from Vortigern to Edward I, ch. 5–11 and supplements, London: printed for Law and Whittaker, 1816. 60 pp + 96 pp + errata + 4 plates.  
The supplement added by J. Whitaker has a separate title page dated Exeter, 1804.
HathiTrust – Vols I–III: Book II continued: <link> HathiTrust – Vols I–III: Suoplement to the first and second books [1806], separately numbered: <link>
Polwhele, Richard, The history of Cornwall: civil, military, religious, architectural, agricultural, commercial, biographical and miscellaneous, 7 vols, vol. 1: Book I: from Caesar to Vortigern, London: printed for Law and Whittaker, 1816. 212 pp + map + 6 plates.  
Incl. original title page dated Falmouth, 1803.
HathiTrust – Vol. I–III: <link>
Polwhele, Richard, The history of Cornwall: civil, military, architectural, agricultural, commercial, biographical, and miscellaneous, 3 vols, Falmouth: printed by T. Flindell for Cadell and Davies, 1803.
Internet Archive: <link>


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Reference works
Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–present. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com>. 
comments: General editors include Lawrence Goldman, et al.
Courtney (W. P.) • Cerny (Grant P.) [id. 22483. ‘Polwhele, Richard (1760–1838)’] direct link
Boase, George Clement, and William Prideaux Courtney, Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: a catalogue of the writings, both manuscript and printed, of Cornishmen, and of works relating to the county of Cornwall; with biographical memoranda and copious literary references, 3 vols, London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1874–1882.
HathiTrust: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Vol. 2, 506–517

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