Yorkshire CD books

Old and rare Yorkshire books on CDrom or as pdf file downloads

photograph of the book
"Hallamshire Worthies"
by Cannon W. Odom

CD ROM and download version
produced by Yorkshire CD books ©

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For sample pages, please see the links to the Acrobat (pdf) files given below.

The data on this CD rom/ downloadable pdf is computer searchable.


"Hallamshire Worthies " was published in 1926 and contains over 250 pages comprising some 200 biographies of the "Worthies". There is complete list of the subjects given in the index (see below for transcriptions), and the groupings of trades and professions are given in the contents list (see below).

In order to give you a better idea of the information in the book the following items are available here on line:

The above Acrobat files were extracted from the CDrom and show the quality of the images. You will need at least version 5 of Acrobat to open this file. If you do not have an up to date version please go to the Adobe web-site to obtain a free version of Acrobat Reader.


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