Thoroton, Robert: The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, extracted out of Records, original Evidences, Leiger Books, other Manuscripts, and Authentick Authorities. Beautified with Maps, Prospects, and Portaictures. London: printed by Robert White, for Henry Mortlock [...], 1677. First edition. Folio, pp. [xvi], 507, [xxxvii] + 22 plates as called for including four leaves containing 520 coats of arms and the separate slip of eight further coats of arms. Imprimatur leaf followed by title-page in red and black, copious illustrations and genealogical tables in the text, woodcut initials and head-pieces. Occasional tiny wax marks, a few (approx. 5) repairs to bottom margins, tiny scorch hole to 2R1. Recent dark brown calf, spine ornately gilt, red and orange morocco spine labels for title, author and date, gilt borders, corner pieces and dentelles, marbled endpapers. Spine sunned, faded patch to top quarter of upper board, very good. At front, in gilt to lower turn-in 'Bound by A. Price, Oxford'. Robert Thoroton (1623?1678) 'commenced his Antiquities of Nottinghamshire in 1667. He first worked on some transcript notes which his father-in-law Gilbert Boun had made from Domesday Book. He assisted Sir William Dugdale in his Visitation of Nottinghamshire, 1662?1664. For his researches he employed paid assistants at considerable expense to himself, delving into family archives, registers (some now lost), estate papers, church monuments, and epitaphs. Like a number of county antiquaries he was little concerned with his own times, or indeed with his own century, but tried to trace the manorial history of each parish back to Domesday. He showed little interest in Roman remains, while protesting at enclosure and destruction of woods. His notes, made on the back of letters from his patients in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Derbyshire, are now in Nottingham Public Library. The folio volume of Thoroton's Antiquities was printed in London in 1677, illustrated with engravings by Hollar after Richard Hall and dedicated to Gilbert Sheldon, archbishop of Canterbury, and Dugdale, both personal friends. Dugdale wrote to the antiquary Sir Daniel Fleming, 'Dr Thoroton's book cost me 16s to 18s. I do esteem the book well worth your buying, though had he gone to the fountain of records it might have been better done' (1 Sept 1677, Le Fleming MSS, 139?40). John Throsby published a reprint of Antiquities with additions, in three volumes (published 1790?96 but dated 1797).' (ODNB) ESTC R22553; Upcott 1047 Ref: 54662show full image..
[Thoroton, Robert:] Throsby, John: Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: republished, with large additions, by John Throsby, and embellished with picturesque and select views of seats of the nobility and gentry, towns, village churches and ruins. Nottingham: published by J. Throsby [?] & sold [?] by Messrs. Burbage, Tupman, Wilson & Gray, bookse 1797 [i.e. 1790-7]. Second edition. 3 vols., 4to., pp.xx, 406, [ii] + 28 plates; 324, [vi] + 42 plates (lacks one plate, the three views of Sneyton opposite p.155); 453, [xxiii] + 33 plates. Portrait frontispiece and added engraved title page to each volume, copious plates and maps some still with tissue guards, a few hand coloured. Some foxing and dampstaining throughout, particularly near the start of each volume. Vol. I: some grey smudgy marks to first few pages, ffep loosening, a few page numbers have become tiny holes, closed horizontal tear about halfway across O1 (no loss). Vol. II: closed tear to 3O2 affecting a couple of words, plate for p.212 is opposite p.210, plate for p.302 is opposite p.301. Vol.III: yellow mark to pp.192-3. Second, expanded edition of Robert Thoroton's (1623?1678) History, edited by antiquary and artist John Throsby (1740-1803). Robert Thoroton (1623?1678) 'commenced his Antiquities of Nottinghamshire in 1667. He first worked on some transcript notes which his father-in-law Gilbert Boun had made from Domesday Book. He assisted Sir William Dugdale in his Visitation of Nottinghamshire, 1662?1664. For his researches he employed paid assistants at considerable expense to himself, delving into family archives, registers (some now lost), estate papers, church monuments, and epitaphs. Like a number of county antiquaries he was little concerned with his own times, or indeed with his own century, but tried to trace the manorial history of each parish back to Domesday. He showed little interest in Roman remains, while protesting at enclosure and destruction of woods. His notes, made on the back of letters from his patients in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Derbyshire, are now in Nottingham Public Library. The folio volume of Thoroton's Antiquities was printed in London in 1677, illustrated with engravings by Hollar after Richard Hall and dedicated to Gilbert Sheldon, archbishop of Canterbury, and Dugdale, both personal friends. Dugdale wrote to the antiquary Sir Daniel Fleming, 'Dr Thoroton's book cost me 16s to 18s. I do esteem the book well worth your buying, though had he gone to the fountain of records it might have been better done' (1 Sept 1677, Le Fleming MSS, 139?40). John Throsby published a reprint of Antiquities with additions, in three volumes (published 1790?96 but dated 1797).' (ODNB). Throsby worked on his edition between 1790 and 1797. The section on Nottingham, containing 'all that is valuable in Deering', initially appeared alone in 1795 and in 1797 was reprinted as part of this three-volume series, illustrated again Throsby's own drawings. ESTC T99860; Upcott 1051. Ref: 54663show full image..
Thurley, Simon: Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved Its Heritage. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 294, inc. illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a touch only of shelf-wear: a fine copy. Ref: 53930
Tinniswood, Adrian: The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England. London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxii, 570 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine, Dust-jacket, lightly sun-faded and creased with moderate shelf-wear. From the library of Prof. William Lamont, without written evidence of ownership but with his pen-scoring to outer margins against passages of particular interest. Ref: 53729
(Twysden, Sir Roger, ed.:) (Selden, John:) (Somner, William:) (Simeon of Durham, et al:) Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores X. [...] Ex vetustissimis manuscriptis, nunc primum in lucem editi. Londini [London]: Typis Jacobi Flesher, sumptibus Cornelii Bee [...] 1652. Editiones principes. 2 vols., folio, pp.[xii], XLVIII, [viii], 8, cols. 9-1284; pp.[ii], 1289-2768, pp.[cci]. Leaf g1, 'Index Authorum et Tractatuum in hoc Volumine', usually found in the 1st paginated section of vol.I is found here instead at the end of vol. II, along with the errata leaf. Vol. I with half-title, title-page in red and black. Section titles, woodcut initials, small illustrations in text. Light foxing heavier in vol. I towards the rear, occasional tiny spots and scorches, volume two slightly toned with some leaves (eg. 4C3, S1) more so, small hole to 3K3 affecting a couple of words. Contemporary speckled brown calf. Both vols. rebacked some time ago with vol. I wearing better. Raised bands, gilt title labels to vol. I but lost to vol. II, gilt spines, triple-filet borders to boards with gilt armorial centrepieces, edges sprinkled brown, endpapers renewed. Vol. I: headcap a bit worn, some chips to spine, joints a little creased, Vol. II: Spine worn, endcaps and labels lost, joints split but cords holding firm. All board surfaces a bit crackled with some scuffing, corners worn, but still very good, sound copies overall. Armorial gilt centrepiece possibly of the McCulloch family, with unusual coronet. To front pastedown of each volume, modern bookplate of the eminent medieval historian Richard Barber, with a few pencilled bibliographical notes. 'Editiones principes' of English medieval chronicles, and church and royal histories (titles of individual works are listed on pp. XLIX-L of the edition. To summarise the authors: Simeon of Durham (fl. 1130); John of Hexham (fl. 1180); Richard of Hexham (d.1163-1178); Serlo Grammaticus (1109-?1207); Ailred of Rievaulx (1109?-1166); Ranulph Brito (d.1246); John Brompton (fl. 1436); Gervase of Canterbury (fl. 1188); Thomas Stubbs (fl. 1373); Ralph d'Escures (d. 1122); William Thorne (fl. 1397); (anon.); Henry Knighton (fl. 1363)). Includes a 48-page Life of the authors by the jurist John Selden (1584-1654). The 84-page glossary of terms by the Anglo-Saxon scholar William Somner (1598-1669) predates his important Saxon-Latin-English lexicon of 1659. There is a variant title-page which states that the edition was sold by Jan and Daniel Elzevier in Leiden. ESTC R005810; Wing H 2094. Ref: 54537show full image..
Wacher, John: The Coming of Rome: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1979 First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 193. Illustrations. Hardback: Green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Jacket a little creased along edges, light signs of use, still very good. Previous owner's faintly pencilled date "feb 86" to ffep. Ref: 54230
Walmsley, John (ed. & trans.): Widows, Heirs, and Heiresses in the Late Twelfth Century. The 'Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis'. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006. 8vo., pp. 160. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 308 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. Ref: 54470
Watt, David: The Making of Thomas Hoccleve's Series. Liverpool University Press, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 258. Illustrations to text. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. Unused: as new. Ref: 54614
Weever, John: Ancient Funerall Monuments Within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, with the dissolued monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certain of the bloud royall; the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forrain London: Thomas Harper, 1631. First edition. Folio, pp.[xvi], 871, [xv] + engraved frontispiece and additional title-page. Woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Some full page illustrations. Head edge of 4D6 a bit tattered with short closed tear, very occasional spots but remarkably clean. 19th-century speckled tan calf, raised bands gilt ruled, black morocco title label, gilt borders, edges sprinkled red. Spine scratched, joints creased, corners a bit frayed, endpapers renewed, very good. Inscription in a very small old hand to title-page, possibly mentioning the name Hillier and making reference to Sir Philip Sydenham, 3rd Baronet. In the margins, a few tiny ms sketches of buildings. Despite the title, only the dioceses of Canterbury, Rochester, London, and Norwich are covered here; no further volumes were produced as Weever died the year after publication. Two manuscript notebooks containing an early draft plus further unpublished material survive and are housed at the Society of Antiquaries (manuscripts 127 &128). Both the published volume and the notebooks contain many inscriptions which have since been lost, making them invaluable to modern historians. ESTC S118104 Ref: 54842show full image..
Weir, Alison: Queens of the Crusades. England's Medieval Queens: Book Two, 1154-1291. New York: Ballantine Books 2021. First U.S. edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 533 + plates. Hardback: buff cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Small red ink remainder dot to bottom edge. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54625
