SIX VOLUMES. A NEW EDITION WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPERPLATES. TIGHTLY BOUND IN MAROON PATTERNED LEATHER WITH LEATHER SPINES. MARBLED END PAGES AND EDGES. SOME FOXING TO THE EARLY PAGES BUT A VERY CLEAN SET. WEAR TO THE LEATHER SPINES. FROM THE LIBRARY OF SNELSTON HALL.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEOFFREY KEYNES AND A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE BY DAVID McKITTERICK SIMON RENDALL AND JOHN DREYFUS. EDITION LIMITED TO 950 COPIES FOR SALE THIS BEING NUMBER 43. A FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER.
RARE FIRST EDITION REBOUND IN QUARTER LEATHER OVER RED BOARDS NEW ENDPAPGES. 379 PAGES AND 78 ILLUSTRATIONS. WEAKNESS TO FRONT HINGE BUT A VERY GOOD CLEAN COPY. SCARCE.
FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP (CHIPPED AT THE TOP). ILLUSTRATED. A HISTORY OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. VOLUME 1 TO THE YEAR 1780 WITH AN APPENDIX LISTING THE TITLES 0F BOOKS PRINTED THERE 1690-1780.
SECOND EDITION VERY FINELY REBOUND IN HALF MOTTLED LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS RAISED BANDS NEW END PAPERS. WITH 22 HAND-COLOURED PLATES AND MANY OTHERS ETCHINGS (ONE LAID DOWN). 720 PAGES. A VERY HANDSOME COPY.
LIMITED EDITION FINE COPY IN GREEN LEATHER SILK ENDPAPERS AND BOOKMARK. A.E.G. RAISED BANDS GILT DECORATION. A NEAR FINE COPY OF A HANDSOME BOOK. ILLUS. BY WILLIAM SMALL.
SECOND EDITION. VERY GOOD IN RED CLOTH GILT TITLES AND DECORATION TO THE FRONT BOARD. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1836. THE CASS LIBRARY OF INDUSTRIAL CLASSICS NO. 13. A FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY THROUGH NORTHERN TOWNS.
SECOND EDITION REVISED. BEING A LIST OF THE PARISHES COVERED BY THE INDEX TOGETHER WITH AN EXPLANATORY INTRODUCTION. A TYPED MANUSCRIPT CARD COVERS iii 37 pp.
TWO VOLUMES IN RED CLOTH GILT TITLE ON SPINE GILT COAT OF ARMS FRONT BOARDS. SLIGHT FOXING. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR WILLIAM WELLER PEPYS BART. MASTER IN CHANCERY 1758-1825 WITH MRS CHAPONE MRS HARTLEY MRS MONTAGU HANNAH MORE WILLIAM FRANKS SIR JAMES MACDONALDMAJOR RENNELL SIR NATHANIEL WRAXALL AND OTHERS
Author:
GAUSSEN C.C.
Place, Publisher, Date:
JOHN LANE. THE BODLEY HEAD. LONDON. MDCCCCIV. 1904
FIRST EDITION. 45 pp VERY NICELY BOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARD NEW ENDPAPERS. HODY (1659-1707) WAS A PROFESSOR OF GREEK AT OXFORD AND THEOLOGIAN. THE LETTER CONCERNS HENRY DODWELL (1641-1711) WITH WHOM HODY WAS INVOLVED IN A CONTROVERSY REGARDING THE NON-JURING BISHOPS. VERY SCARCE.
TWO LETTERS – THE FIRST DATED 1688 20 PAGES. THE SECOND DATED 1689 64 PAGES. BOUND IN MODERN BLACK CLOTH NEW ENDPAPERS AND GILT TITLE TO THE SPINE. VERY GOOD INTERIOR CLEAN AND BRIGHT. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF SOMERSET AND MIDDLESEX LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS MAJESTIES HOUSEHOLD CONCERNING HIS SITTING IN THE THE LATE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. In 1669 Sprat became canon of Westminster Abbey and in 1670 rector of Uffington Lincolnshire. He was chaplain to Charles II in 1676 curate and lecturer at St. Margaret’s Westminster in 1679 canon of Windsor in 1681 dean of Westminster in 1683 and bishop of Rochester in 1684. He was a member of James II’s ecclesiastical commission and in 1688 he read the Declaration of Indulgence to empty benches in Westminster Abbey. The suggestion was that he was playing at being Vicar of Bray. Although he opposed the motion of 1689 declaring the throne vacant he assisted at the coronation of William and Mary. As dean of Westminster he directed Christopher Wren’s restoration of the abbey.