Page, William (ed.): The Victoria History of the (County of) Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Volume Five. Folkestone & London: Dawsons of Pall Mall for the University of London Institute of Historical Resea 1973. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. Two corners slightly bumped, a touch of shelf-wear, a little dusting to edges, very good. Reprinted from the 1912 first edition published by Archibald Constable and Company. Ref: 54071
Page, William (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Bedford. Index. Folkestone & London: Dawsons of Pall Mall for the University of London Institute of Historical Resea 1972. Reprint. 4to. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. Fine. Reprinted from the 1914 first edition published by Archibald Constable and Company. Ref: 54031
Page, William; Proby, Granville & Ladds, S. Inskip (eds.): The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon. Volume II. Folkestone, Kent: Dawsons of Pall Mall for the University of London Institute of Historical Research 1974. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. A little shelf-wear, one corner bumped, otherwise very good. Reprinted from the 1932 first edition published by the St. Catherine Press. Ref: 54034
[Paris, Matthew:] (Parker, Matthew, ed.:) Flores Historiarum per Matthaeum Westmonasteriensem collecti, praecipue de rebus Britannicis ab exordio mundi usque ad annum Domini. MCCCVII. Francofurti [Frankfurt]: Typis Wechelianis, 1601. Folio, pp. [viii] 696 [xxiv]. Printer's device to title-page and to final leaf verso, ornate woodcut endpieces and initials. Faint blotchy foxing, some leaves toned, occasional tiny wax spots, a few very discreet paper repairs. Later (approx. 1821-1860) tan calf binding by Clarke & Bedford of Frith Street (their ink stamp to upper corner ffep, verso), spine richly gilt with raised bands; gilt centrepiece, borders and dentelles to each board, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Joints slightly creased, a little wear to endcaps but very good indeed. Centrepiece gilt arms of John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor (1790-1860). Campbell married in 1816 and succeeded his father in 1821, and these arms appear to postdate both of those events. Campbell was a Fellow of the Royal Society, MP for Carmarthen (1813-1821) and Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire (1817-1860). Ownership inscription of J. Campbell in an old hand to blank leaf preceding title-page. A reprint of the second edition (London, 1570) of Matthew Paris's important historical chronicle (formerly attributed to the fictional 'Matthew of Westminster'), as edited by Matthew Parker. The text covering the period to 1259 is based on the author's Chronica Majora; the 1259-1307 text was compiled and composed by various writers at St. Albans and Westminster; the text from 1307 to 1325 is by Robert of Reading. Includes the chronicle based on the work of Marianus previously attributed to Florence of Worcester, now attributed to John of Worcester. Ref: 54533show full image..
[Paston letters] (Fenn, John, ed.:) (Frere, Serjeant:) Original Letters, written during the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III, by various Persons of Rank or Consequence [...] with Notes, Historical and Explanatory; and Authenticated by Engravings of Autographs, Fac Similes, Paper-Marks and Seals. London: printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1787, 1789, 1823. 5 vols., extra-illustrated. Vols. I-II second editions with additions and corrections, vols. III-V first editions. 4to., pp. lxxxvii, [i], 301, [i]; [iv], 363, [i]; [iv], xvi, xxxvi, 451, [i]; [vi], xxxii, 478, [ii]; lxxvi, 472 + additional engraved vignette title and coloured engraved frontispiece to each vol. + 34 facsimile plates + 34 further plates. Extra illustrated with additional coloured engraved plates (landscapes etc), including folding map of England and Wales. With half-titles. Parallel medieval and modern texts. Vol. I preliminary blanks, title and pages facing tissue guards toned; small closed tear to map, occasional foxing, a few ink spots. Vol. II occasional foxing and toning, some neat pencil notes. Vol. IV, Some leaves a little toned, also some toning and light damp staining to plates. Some vols. bearing evidence of a bookplate having been removed. Contemporary calf panelled boards rebacked in mottled calf, spines gilt, raised bands, red and black spine labels, all edges faintly blue, marbled endpapers. A few chips to spine, board leather dry and rubbed, corners very worn, but good sound copies. To front paste-down each volume, crimson leather and gilt book label of W.A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey and ms inscription at head of ffep verso, Liverpool, Kirkham Abbey [illegible] 1907. Vol. I with pencilled note to front endpaper, 'Duke of York's copy'. John Fenn's edition of the Paston Letters was the first printing of this invaluable collection shedding light on the life of an aristocratic family (the Pastons, later Earls of Yarmouth) in the fifteenth century. The editor obtained the documents from the executors of a chemist in Diss, Norfolk, and later presented the originals for volumes I and II to George III, receiving a knighthood soon after. The work was nevertheless suspected for years to be a forgery, until the material (including what he had given to the King) resurfaced in various country houses in the later part of the nineteenth century. The fifth volume was sent to the press posthumously by Serjeant Frere, Fenn's nephew (Ency. Brit., 11th edn.) Lowndes 788: "Two editions of Vols. 1 & 2 were printed in 1787, but there is no perceptible difference between them." ESTC N010147 & T149304. Ref: 54569show full image..
Pennant, Thomas: A Tour from Alston-Moor to Harrowgate, and Brimham Crags. London: printed by C. Mercier and Co., Northumberland-Court, Strand, for John Scott, no.447, Strand, 1804. First edition. 4to., pp.[x], 130 + 9 plates as called for. Half-title. Title-page repaired at top fore-edge corner, some toning transferred from plates onto facing pages. Half green sheep, gilt title to spine, marbled paper boards, edges sprinkled brown, marbled paste-downs but free endpapers replaced with plain blue. Joints worn, boards quite toned, corners a bit frayed, still very good. Edited by Pennant's son David and published posthumously. 'Pennant's travels and natural history are distinguished by his personal energy, a keen observational sense, and by methodological organization and attention to facts. In such ways, and in his friendship and widespread correspondence with others of like interests throughout Britain and Europe, he may be said to exemplify those gentleman scholars of nature in the later eighteenth century whose interests in natural knowledge aimed at national improvement through intellectual enquiry. While he is perhaps better remembered for his Scottish tours, his British Zoology and Arctic Zoology in particular were important pioneering works and established him in the eyes of contemporaries as a leading European natural historian. For one modern scholar Pennant should be considered 'the leading British zoologist after Ray and before Darwin' (Beer, vi).' (Withers, ODNB) Ref: 54602show full image..
Pennant, Thomas: A Tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX. Warrington: printed by W. Eyres, 1774. 1774. Third edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 316; viii, 172 + 18 plates to the first part and 21 plates to the second part. Additional engraved title-page with vignette dated 1774, followed by printed title-page dated 1771. Title-page to 'Additions to the 4to Edition [?]' dated 1774 after p.316. Some illustrations in the text. Occasional small ink spots, eider duck plate neatly repaired, 2G8 bottom corner of fore-edge margin lost not affecting text. Modern half calf olive green, raised bands and black gilt labels to spine, marbled boards, edges very lightly sprinkled blue, endpapers renewed. A little rubbed, a few light scuffs to spine, very good. To the second, printed title an ownership inscription possibly of C. Stuart (the end of the surname trimmed) dated 28th December 17(??). 'In 1769 Pennant undertook a tour of Scotland, chiefly of the highlands, a region then little known by outsiders yet of interest for its natural history. He again drew upon local specialist knowledge? men such as the Revd Dr John Walker, who had travelled extensively in the highlands and Hebrides in 1764 and 1766, and, in Aberdeen, the natural historian David Skene, who showed Pennant his cabinet of natural history and advised him on zoological and botanical specimens. Pennant's A Tour in Scotland, 1769, was published in 1771. It is of interest for its descriptions andfor its method: Pennant circulated 'Queries, addressed to the Gentlemen and Clergy of North-Britain' [Scotland] with standard questions about natural history and the past and present state of the parish in order to allow locals to give 'a fuller and more satisfactory Account of their Country, than it is the Power of a Stranger and transient Visitant to give' (Pennant, Tour in Scotland, 287). In that regard Pennant has much in common with the earlier use of circulated queries by natural philosophers such as Robert Boyle and, in Scotland, by the natural historian and geographer Sir Robert Sibbald, and Pennant importantly prefigures the parish-based assessment of Scotland published by Sir John Sinclair in the 1790s.' (Withers, ODNB) Ref: 54605show full image..
Pennant, Thomas: A Tour in Wales. London: printed for Benjamin White, 1784. Second edition. 2 vols., 4to., pp. [viii], 488, [viii] + 29 plates; ii, [ii], 487, [vii], [ix] + 35 plates. Engraved title-page with vignette to each vol., plus additional title-page 'The Journey to Snowdon' to vol. 2. Plates as called for, vol.I plates XXIV and XXV misbound. Dampstaining to vol. I front endpapers and title, occasional light toning. Contemporary green straight-grain Morocco, spines gilt, plain gilt borders and dentelles, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Spines browned, joints a little rubbed, vol.I dampstained to lower half of each board, but good sound copies. Armorial bookplate to front paste-down each volume. Vol I.: A Tour in Wales. Vol. II. The Journey to Snowdon, plus Corrections and Additions to the first volume. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Pennant (1726?1798) undertook several tours throughout Wales in the early 1770s where his Welsh-speaking friend, the Revd John Lloyd of Caerwys gave his assistance with translations. ESTC T213985 Ref: 54601show full image..
Pennant, Thomas: The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell. [London:] printed for B. and J. White, 1796. 4to., pp. [viii], 172, [ii], 185-328 + 22 plates, as called for. Engraved title-page with vignette of a house titled 'Bychon'. Separate title-page for Holywell, with vignette. First leaf and title foxed, some further light foxing, occasional toning generally to leaves near plates. Recently rebound, speckled tan half calf, red morocco gilt label, brown cloth boards, endpapers renewed. A few marks to cloth, very good. 'Two of the three publications written towards the end of Pennant's life exemplify both his energy and the range of his writings. The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell (1796) offers a detailed local history and genealogical information on the Pennant family. [?] The title of the third, The Literary Life of the Late Thomas Pennant Esq., by himself (1793), hints at Pennant's sense of humour. It is signed only by dotted lines to indicate the death of the author: it is for that reason that his History of the Parishes is signed 'RESURGAM', with its implication of literary resurrection.' (Withers, ODNB) ESTC T113878 Ref: 54603show full image..
Pheifer, J.D. (ed.): Old English Glosses In The Epinal-Erfurt Glossary. Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint). 1998 8vo. pp. xci, 166. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. First published 1974. Ref: 54937
