TWO VOLUMES IN BROWN CLOTH DARK BROWN SPINE WITH GOLD LETTERS. THE DRAMATIC COMPLEMENTAL HISTORY OF THE REMARKABLE ATREBATIAN STRONGHOLD WHICH BECAME THE IMPERIAL MUNICIPALITY CALLED CALLEVA ATREBATUM THE THIRD FREE CITY OF THE ROMANO-BRITANNIC PROVINCE MORE COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE RUINS OF SILCHESTER. ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES DRAWINGS MAPS PLANS ETC. LIMITED TO 350 COPIES THIS EDITION 224.
6 VOLUMES. BOUND IN ORIGINAL BLUE CLOTH VERY GOOD HARDBACKS WITH DUSTWRAPS – SOME LOSS TO SPINE OF VOLUME 3 AND FADING TO SPINES OF FOUR OF THE VOLUMES.VOLUME 1: FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE AGE OF MACQUARIE. VOLUME 2: NEW SOUTH WALES AND VAN DIEMEN`S LAND 1822 – 1838. VOLUME 3: THE BEGINNING OF AN AUSTRALIAN CIVILIZATION 1824 – 1851. VOLUME 4: THE EARTH ABIDETH FOR EVER 1851 – 1888. VOLUME 5: THE PEOPLE MAKE LAWS 1888 – 1915. VOLUME 6: `THE OLD DEAD TREE AND THE YOUNG TREE GREEN` 1916 – 1915 WITH AN EPILOGUE.
FOURTH EDITION. THIRTEEN VOLUMES COMPLETE. SMALL OCTAVO. FINE BINDINGS FULL LEATHER MARBLED END PAPERS AND PAGE EDGES. ENGRAVED TITLE PAGE AND BOOKPLATE TO EACH VOLUME. VOL 1 HAS A FRONTISPIECE OF LINGARD. SOME FOXING TO THE PRELIMS. THEN CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. A HANDSOME SET OF A SCARCE WORK.
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.
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.
BOUND COPY IN MARBLED CARD – NEW ENDPAPERS NEAT HAND-WRITTEN TITLE TO FRONT BOARD. THE FIRST LETTER THAT SPRAT WROTE TO THE EARL OF DORSET AND MIDDLESEX. 20 PAGES IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF DORSET AND MIDDLESEX LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS MAJESTIES HOUSEHOLD CONCERNING HIS SITTING IN THE LATE ECCLESIASTIAL 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.
