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[H] Daniel Defoe, ‘Description of Liverpool’ in A Tour thro’ the whole island of Great Britain, 3 vols (1727)
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In his tour of Britain, the traveller Daniel Defoe described the use of freestone (cut stone, or ashlar, as opposed to rubble) and brick as an indicator of the town’s beauty, a trope found in many other travellers’ accounts.
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- file size611 kB
- creditUniversity of Liverpool Library Special Collections & Archives, SPEC J33.36. By courtesy of the University of Liverpool Library.
- original publisherG. STRAHAN
- original publisher placeLondon
- rightsCC BY-NC 4.0 licence.