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Joannis Lelandi antiquarii De rebus Britannicis collectanea. / Ex autographis descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius ... qui & appendicem subjecit, totumque opus (in VI. volumina distributum) notis & indice adornavit..

Accession number
PML 196277-82
Creator
Leland, John, 1506?-1552.
Published
Oxonii : E Theatro Sheldoniano, MDCCXV. : Sumptibus editor is, [1715]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Includes index (v. 6).
Publisher's advertisement ([1] leaf) at end of v. 6.
First ed.
Tomus 1 pars I-II (vol. 1-2); tomus II-III (v. 3-4); Appendicis, pars I-II (vol. 5-6).
Chiefly Latin; some texts in English.
Engravings by M. Burg[hers].
Vol. 2 has register and pagination that continue v. 1, and is identified as "tomi primi pars secunda;" v. 3-4 are numbered 2 and 3; v. 5-6 so numbered in direction line only. Half-titles identify these as: Appendicis ad Joannis Lelandi antiquarii Collectanea pars prima[-secunda].
Description
6 v. : ill., ; 21 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription on t-p (vol. I): obiit T.H. (Thomas Hearne) June 10 1735 Anno aetatis 57 apud Oxon; inscription in Vol. VI copying inscription regarding the hat worn by Bradshaw at the trial of Charles I, not at Ashmolean.
Provenance
Browne Willis, subscription copy (vol. VI); Boone of Bond Street bought it at Mr. Fleming's sale (Stoneham Park); Toovey collection.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt.
Classification
Department