Desiderata curiosa

Desiderata curiosa

Full title: Desiderata curiosa: or, A collection of divers scarce and curious pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history; consisting of choice tracts, memoirs, letters, wills, epitaphs, &c. transcribed, many of them, from the originals themselves, and the rest from divers antient ms. copies, or the ms. collections of sundry famous antiquaries and other eminent persons, both of the last and present age: the whole, as near as possible, digested into an order of time, and illustrated with ample notes, contents, additional discourses, and a complete index. / By Francis Peck, M. A., Rector of Godeby near Melton in Leicestershire.

Binder's spine title: Peck's Desiderata curiosa

Francis Peck, 1692-1743

London : Printed for Thomas Evans in the Strand

MDCCLXXIX. [1779]

2 volumes in 1 (xvii, [7], 1-238, [10], vi, [10], 239-581, [9] pages, [22] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 31 cm (4°)

These papers relate to the period 1558-1660.

Paged continuously.

Each volume has separate title pages.

Includes index at end of each volume.

With a list of subscribers in volume 1.

Pages 420 and 426 are misnumbered 400, and 406 respectively.

Portrait of author as frontispiece.

Bookplate inside front cover: Viscount Barrington.
Schulich-Woolf copy presented by Principal Daniel Woolf [Gift2015]

Evans, Thomas, 1739-1803, bookseller.
Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.) donor
Schulich-Woolf Collection.

English; Latin

folio DA300 .P36 1779
ESTC T97522