Sir robert atkyns (12 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original tawny brown cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains (viii), 246 pp with 9 monochrome illustrations throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with short closed tear to the top front corner, not price clipped. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Substance of the Information of Richard Perkin of Shutborrow, in the County of Stafford; taken upon oath at Stafford Assizes 1679. by Sir Robert Atkyns knight, then one of the judges for that circuit. London: Printed for Richard Baldwin in Ball-Court, near the Black Bull in the Old Baily, 1681. The volume is paginated as follows: [2], 5, [1] p. The volume collates as follows: [A]2 B2. ESTC: R8776 Wing P154. Each leaf measures 294 x 190 mm. The Volume is in Very good Condition disbound, with generally clean, well margined leaves, some mild general toning, as well as some small creases and fox marks. Of 'The Substance of the Information'. Richard Perkin. Popish Plot informer involved in the Trial of the Lord Stafford. In 1678, Viscount Stafford was implicated in Titus Oates's later discredited "Popish Plot", and sent to the Tower of London on 31 October 1678, along with four other Catholic peers. They were due to be put on trial in early 1679, but Charles prorogued Parliament and it was delayed. The King initially seems to have had some suspicions about Stafford's loyalty, especially after hearing the seemingly plausible evidence of the informer Stephen Dugdale, and went so far as to offer Stafford a royal pardon if he would confess; but he later altered his opinion. Scepticism about the plot grew and it was thought that the imprisoned peers might be released, but anti-Catholic feelings revived in 1680 and Stafford was put on trial in November for treason. As a peer he claimed the privilege of peerage to be tried before the House of Lords, presided over by the Lord High Steward. As events would show, however, a peer could not take the sympathy of his fellow peers, even those peers who were his blood relations, for granted. The main evidence against Stafford came from Titus Oates, who said he had seen a document from the Pope naming Stafford as a conspirator; and from Stephen Dugdale, who testified that Stafford had tried to persuade him to kill the King when Stafford was visiting Dugdale's employers, the Astons, at their country house, Tixall, Staffordshire. The Substance of the Information of Richard Perkin of Shutborrow, concerns this period at The Astons. …

Disbound. Zustand: Very good +. First Edition. Pages 31-51 of a larger volume. 29 cm. An occasional spot but overall very clean. Preliminary leaf and title page. Title continues: "In the Court of Kings-Bench, in an Action upon the Case; And afterwards by Error; Sued in the Exchequer-Chamber." Author was a judge on the Court of Common-Pleas and Speaker of the House of Lords. Bernardiston was elected by his county to serve in Parliament but Soames prevented him from taking office. Atkyns ruled in favour of Bernardiston. Second part only of Wing A4136.…

Disbound. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. 26 p. 19 cm. Small hole in Advertisement leaf, ink signature on title page, an occasional spot. Title continues: "By way of Answer or Confutation of a Libellous Pamphlet, Intituled, An Antidote against Poyson; with Two Letters of the Author of this Book, Upon the Subject of his Lordship's Tryal. Together with An Argument in the Great Case Concerning Elections of Members to Parliament, Between Sr Samuel Barnardiston Bar. Plaintiff, and Sr Will. Soames Sheriff of Suffolk, Defend' In the Court of Kings-Bench, in an Action upon the Case, And afterwards by Error sued in the Exchequer-Chamber." Lord William Russell was implicated in the Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II, tried and executed. Atkyns contributed legal advice to Lord Russell's defence. The pamphlet is a reply to another by Sir Batholomew Shower that defended the legal position of the Russell trial. Wing A4136. …

Reprint of 1712 Edition. 2 vols. Sm. folio. xvii + [xiv] + 859pp. + [v]. 69 double page plates (one bound in upside down), 2 double page maps, 8 leaves of armorial shields. With the signatures of D. Clare Compton, chipped d/ws. Classical County Histories. US$371.

Large folio hardback, 17 x 11 inches. Halfbound specked calf leather fine binding, with marbled paper to boards, raised banding to spine with gilt decoration and black leather spine label. In very good condition. Later fine binding. Loose in front is a detailed pen & ink drawing of Monument in Hasfield Church (see p241.) Inside pages a little musty and mildewy. Some mild foxing throughout. Some staining to bottom edges/areas of pages and plates. 2 plates of crests at front a little rubbed/chipped on bottom edges. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 452pp. Illustrations complete with 73 B&W engraved plates, 65 are double-page. With decorative head and tail pieces.…

1st Edition. "ATKYNS, Sir Robert (1647-1711). The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire. London: W. Bowyer for Robert Gosling at the Mitre, near the Inner-Temple Gate, in Fleetstreet, 1712. Folio (15 6/8 x 10 2/8 inches). Engraved portrait of Atkyns by M. vander Gucht, a double-page engraved map of Gloucestershire, 64 double-page views by Johannes Kip, 8 plates of coats-of-arms (a bit browned). 19th-century pigskin, gilt, with the supra libros of the Barons Sherborne on the front cover, all edges gilt. Provenance: With the bookplate of the Sherborne house library on the front paste-down; their sale Christie's New York, 19 July 1972, lot 11; from the library of Hugh Fattorini, his sale Sotheby's 30th April, 2015, lot 97 First edition, and a handsome copy. "Overshadowed by his father, who as chief baron of the exchequer was speaker of the House of Lords between 1689 and 1693, and with whom he had political disagreements, Atkyns refused to take the oath of allegiance to William III and chose to retire to Pinbury Park, where he had the opportunity to explore his topographical interests. The first of the three major Gloucestershire antiquariesthe other two being Ralph Bigland (17121784) and Samuel Rudder (17261801)Atkyns collected material for parish histories, incorporating manuscripts on church history passed to him by Richard Parsons (16431711), chancellor of Gloucester diocese between 1677 and 1711. He compiled comprehensive manorial descents and attempted to record the population of each parish, based on the numbers of houses therein and the yearly birth and burial numbers. The resulting first folio county history of Gloucestershire, his Ancient and Present State of Glostershire (1712), which eulogizes the Stuarts, is especially valuable for its series of sixty-four engravings by Johannes Kip, illustrating the county seats and manor houses in the first decade of the eighteenth century, and preserving a record of features now altered or entirely lost" (Robert J. Haines for DNB). The artist of the spectacular plates that fill the book was the Dutch born John Kip. The majority of Kip's work "consists of topography, which has been called 'the most dynamic area of publishing in the first quarter of the century' (Clayton, The English Print, 75). It was possibly for William's court that he began to develop and produce the bird's-eye prospect views of country houses on which his reputation rests. The first view was of the Chelsea Hospitalin which William had quickly taken a personal interest on becoming kingwhich Kip drew and engraved in 1690. About 1698 he began producing drawings and plates for his best-known work, Britannia illustrata, or, Views of several of the queen's palaces, as also of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry of Great Britain, a collection of high-quality engraved bird's-eye prospects sold on single sheets from about 1700 and issued together in 1707. For the first volume of this work, which achieved 'immediate success' (Harris, 140), Kip engraved the views drawn by Leonard Knyff, but for the second volume he drew and engraved the views himself. He probably sold out his interests in the work before or shortly after its publication, and it was expanded by booksellers with contributions from other artists from 1709. Kip also drew and engraved the sixty-five plates for Robert Atkyn's The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire (1712) and engraved Thomas Bladeslade's drawings for John Harris's The History of Kent (1719). During his career in Britain Kip produced engraved portraits, frontispieces, and architectural miscellany, and for an unknown period lived in and sold prints from his house on St John's Street, Westminster. His contemporary reputation as a fashionable engraver probably peaked in 1708 with the appearance of Britannia illustrata, but he found himself superseded by the engraver Henry Hulsburgh, who introduced a more up-to-date architectural survey into the expanded work of 1715. ".…

Zustand: Very Good. Double-page copper-plate bird's eye views (61 complete) of estates in Gloucestershire by J. Kip + double-page map of the county, plan & view of Gloucester City, and cathedral view + 8 single page plates with 320 small coats of arms. Folio half brown calf and cloth sides with spine gilt titled (tips leather worn, spine rubbed & bottom edge shelf wear). Titlepage with decorative woodcut + [6]pp Preface & Advertisement +[16]pp coats of arms printed one side only + [2]pp author's epitaph and plate list + double-page Map of Glostershire +452pp + [6]pp Index. Ex-library with bookplate of Cheltenham Library Reference Department to pastedown + partially legible stamp of "Glos. Withd** for sale" to free endpaper. Light stain to top margin of title and 3/4-inch circular library stamp at foot, neat manuscript shelf mark & date on blank verso. The same small round purple stamp neatly placed on top corner margin & blank verso of each plate, first preface page & last index page also stamped in margin. Printer's smudge of print-ink to the title-panel of Hales Abbey plate, and an old marginal repair without loss to the plate of Knole. One of 2 Henbury plates which should be at p248 has been placed at p218. All plates on good thick quality paper with broad margins, beautifully printed and stubbed out from gutter so the plates lie flat when opened. Stubbing paper rather browned and in some cases with narrow brown offset to text in gutter area, but front of plates only rarely affected. All plates present and text complete, no foxing, paper crisp and pages well attached, in sound if unexciting early 20th century half-leather binding. *Complete copy of one of the best illustrated county histories of England with good wide margins. 1 volume. Hardcover.…

First Edition. The Legality of Lord Russell's Trial [Trial]. [Rye House Plot]. Atkyns, Sir Robert [1621-1709]. A Defence of the Late Lord Russel's Innocency, By Way of An Answer or Confutation of a Libellous Pamphlet, Intituled, An Antidote Against Poyson; With Two Letters of the Author of This Book, Upon the Subject of His Lordship's Tryal. Together with an Argument in the Great Case Concerning Elections of Members to Parliament, Between Sr Samuel Barnardiston Bar. Plaintiff, And Sr Will. Soames Sheriff of Suffolk, Defend' in the Court of King's-Bench, In an Action Upon the Case, And Afterwards by Error Sued in the Exchequer-Chamber. London: Printed for Timothy Goodwin, 1689. [iii], 51 pp. Title page preceded by advertisement leaf. Argument in the Great Case preceded by divisional title page. Folio (12" x 7"). Disbound, text secure. Some edgewear and soiling to first and final leaves, worming through upper margins of most leaves with no loss to text. Toning, small faint stains to a few leaves, internally clean. $250. * First edition. This is a reply to a pamphlet by Sir Bartholomew Shower that defended the legal position of the Russell trial. Atkyns was Russell's legal advisor. Russell [1639-1683] was implicated in and ultimately executed due to his supposed involvement in the Rye House Plot, a plan to assassinate King Charles II and his brother (and heir to the throne) James, Duke of York devised by a group of Whigs. Some historians believe this plot was largely fabricated by Charles II as a way to destroy the Whigs, most notably Russell and Algernon Sydney [1623-1683], who were convicted and executed on the basis of flimsy evidence. English Short-Title Catalogue R4958.…