Author: Hearne, Thomas:

Title: A Collection of Curious Discourses Written by Eminent Antiquaries Upon Several Heads in our English Antiquities. Together with Mr Thomas Hearne's Preface and Appendix to the Former Edition, to which are added a great number of Antiquary Discourses written by the same authors, most of them now First Published from the Original Manuscripts.

Publication: London: printed for Benjamin White, 1775.

Description: 2 vols., pp.[xiv], LXXI, [i], 354; [vi], 449, [xv] + folding plate, bound opposite p.XLV rather than as a frontispiece as often found. Full page illustration at h4. Gathering A accidentally repeated. A little foxed, some small patches of toning and light dusty marks, 2Q1 and 2Q2 a little short at fore-edge built not affecting text, Index a bit toned. Contemporary tan calf, raised bands gilt ruled, green morocco title labels, edges sprinkled red. Joints creased and just starting at ends, rubbed, corner frayed, vol.II with small losses to endcaps, endpapers foxed, very good overall.

A reissue of the edition of 1771 with cancel title-pages. Originally published in 1720, one of a flurry of publications that came after Hearne's attempted prosecution by the University of Oxford over his preface to Camden's Annals which 'appeared to damage the University, and seemed to imply Catholic inclinations' (ONDB).

Bibliography: ESTC T132033

Reference Number: [55144]

Price: £400

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