Browse Items (39 total)

  • Collection: Rare Book Collection

The customs of London

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Containing among divers other matters, the original of the celebrated poem of The nut-brown maid; reprinted from the first edition, with the additions included in the second. Edited by J. Douce.

The antiquities of Berkshire

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V. 1 and 2 are continuously paged.
Printer's device on title page. ; head and tail pieces.

Annales rerum gestarum Ælfredi Magni

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Includes index p. 178-181.
With a list of subscribers on 7 p. at the end.
Title page in red and black; a variant has the title page printed in black only.
Signatures: a-e⁴ A-L⁴ M² N-X⁴ ²X⁴ Y-Z.⁴
With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Alfred…

A discoverie of certaine errours published in print in the much commended Britannia, 1594

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Edited by John Anstis. --ESTC,
In two parts, each with separate title page, register and pagination. The first part has title "A discoverie of certaine errours ..." with imprint "London printed by J. Betthenham, for James Woodman, 1723";
the…

Georgii Buchanani Scoti, poetarum sui seculi facile principis, Opera omnia, ad optimorum codicum fidem summo studio recognita & castigata

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In v.1, leaf 4K2 mis-signed 3K2.
Title pages printed in red and black and enclosed within double-rule.
Added engraved title page to volume 1, signed "Andr. Iohnston excud. M.V.dr Gucht sculp.
Title page to volume 2: "Georgii Buchanani Scoti,…

The history of the Reformation of the Church of England.

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Parts 1 and 2 have half-titles: "The first part of The history of the Reformation" and "The second part of The history of the Reformation"
Title page printed in black and red typefaces
Vol. 3 is the first edition of the supplement, with the…

Annales rerum anglicarum et hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

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Guilielmo Camdeno authore. Text within line border; initials; head and tail pieces.Running title: Elizabetha Angliae Regina.Includes index. Queen's University copy is missing first 2 blank leaves and final errata leaf.A2 is misprinted A3.B1 is a…

Anglica, Normannica, Hibernica, Cambrica, a veteribvs scripta : ex quibus Asser Meneuensis, anonymus de vita Gulielmi Conquestoris

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Title page and colophon devices (Andreas Wechel).
Head- and tailpieces, initials.
Printed marginalia.
Includes index.
Error in pagination: pp. 893-896 misnumbered 889-892.
Signatures: [3* in a triangle]? A-Hhhh? Iiii?

Remains concerning Britain

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Originally published in 1605 under title: Remaines of a greater worke, concerning Britaine, the inhabitants thereof, their languages, names, surnames, empreses, wise speeches, poesies, and epitaphes,
Page 207 misnumbered as 209

The history of Wales

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Titlepage in red and black,
With an appendix containing a collection of documents in Latin,
"It is more likely that Caradog wrote his work in Latin than in Welsh" (DNB), and the original English version "The historie of Cambria" was a text patched…

The history of Dion Cassius abridg'd by Xiphilin

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Vol. 2 t.p. standing of v. 1 except: "The second volume" for "In two volumes" and "Pater-noster-Row" for "Paternoster-Row."
Vol. 1: [22], 407, [1]; v. 2: [8], 375, [1] p.
Signatures: v. 1: A⁸ a⁴(-a4) B-2C⁸ 2D⁴(2D4 verso blank); v. 2: A⁴ B-2A⁸…

The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England

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Ordinary paper issue.

With a half-title.

In this edition, l.14 of v.1 titlepage reads: "Counsellor".

The third preliminary leaf in v.1 contains a royal privilege, dated 24 June 1703, for the publication of v.2-3; it is from the same setting…

Istoria fiorentina di Dino Compagni dall'anno M. CC. LXXX. fino al M. CCC. XII

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Title vignette (device of the Accademia della Crusca),
Dedication signed: Domenico Maria Manni,
At bottom of title page: Con Licenza De' Superiori,
Includes indexes