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POCKET COMPANION

FOR

OXFORD:

OR,

Guide through the University.

CONTAINING

An accurate Defcription of the PUBLIC EDIFICES, the BUILDINGS in each of the COLLEGES; the GARDENS, STATUES, PICTURES, HIEROGLYPHICKS, and all other CURIOSITIES in the UNIVERSITY. With an Hiftorical Account of the Foundation of the feveral Colleges, and their prefent State.

To which are added,

Defcriptions of the BUILDINGS, TAPESTRY, PAINTINGS,
SCULPTURES, TEMPLES, GARDENS, &c. at
BLENHEIM, DITCHLEY, HEYTHROP,
NUNEHAM and STOW,
The SEATS of

His Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH,

The Right Honourable the Earls of LITCHFIELD, SHREWS BURY, and HARCOURT; and the MARQUIS of BUCK

INGHAM.

A NEW EDITION, Corrected, much Enlarged, and Adorned with a PLAN of the UNIVERSITY and CITY, and Six other PLATES.

OXFORD,

Printed for J. CooкE, near the Clarendon Printing-House

M DCC XCV.

[Price One Shilling and Six-pence.]

See! Oxford lifts her Head fublime,
Majestic in the Moss of Time;

Nor wants there Gracia's better Part,

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While, as with rival Pride, her Tow'rs invade the Sky.

WARTON's Ode.

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LIBRARY

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Library, and Collection of Pictures 84

Clarendon Printing-House

Corpus Chrifti College

Ditchley, the Seat of the Right Honourable the
Earl of Litchfield

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Heythrop the Seat of the Right Honourable the
Earl of Shrewsbury

Lifts of Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, Heads of

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