Shelfmark
Ib2.3.46
Additional shelfmark
Ib2.3.47
Title
Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: to which are added, Hearne's journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, Esq. and Lives of eminent men, by John Aubrey, Esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations. In two volumes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Pater-Noster-Row and Munday and Slatter, Oxford., 1813.
Physical description
2 v. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Note
Includes an index and a list of corrigenda at the end of v. 2, pt. 2.
Note
Volume two is divided into two parts, each with a separate title-leaf.
Note
"Printed by Munday and Slatter, Oxford." - final page of each vol.
Note
Edited by John Walker.
Note
Vol. 1: xxiii, [1], 304; [2], 352; vol. 2: [3], 354-668 p.
Provenance
[Ib2.3.46] Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
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[Ib2.3.46] Eton College Library ink stamp on front flyleaf verso.
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[Ib2.3.46] Armorial bookplate of Lancelot Holland.
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[Ib2.3.47] Armorial bookplate of F. Manley Sims.
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[Ib2.3.47] Ink stamp on title page: "Manley Sims Eton Collection".
Provenance
[Ib2.3.47] Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Binding
[Ib2.3.46] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
Binding
[Ib2.3.47] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
Copy-specific note
[Ib2.3.46] Gold tooled spine titles from former bindings pasted on rear flyleaf.
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English letters.
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Great Britain Social life and customs 17th century.
Subject
Great Britain Social life and customs 18th century.
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Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
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Manley Sims, F. former owner.
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Munday and Slatter printer.
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Munday and Slatter publisher.
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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown publisher.
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England London.
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England Oxford.
Identifier
B34858