fenn sir john (6 Ergebnisse)

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Blue Cloth Boards. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. Collection of 15th century private letters of a Norfolk family, giving a vivid picture of the social life of the times. 386pp illustrated with black and white map and family tree. Silver lettering to spine. Slight bumping to spine and corners, marking to page edges and former owner's inscription dated, otherwise good reading copy. Unclipped DJ somewhat frayed and soiled with slight loss to edges. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. No jacket. Sunning to spine. First edition, first printing. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Two vols in one, 4to, pp.lxxxvii, [1], 301, [1]; [iv], 363, with an additional title-page in each volume (in gothic type, with an engraved vignette), a folding genealogical table and a hand-coloured plate of the badges of the House of Lancaster in vol.I, and 16 plates of facsimiles, watermarks, and seals (one printed in sepia) at the end of vol.II; a very good copy in contemporary tree calf, joints cracked and worn, cords holding; gilt armorial stamp to covers and head of spine of Robert Riddell (17551794) (BAB stamp 1), with his annotations to two pages in the preface, and scattered marks elsewhere, note to head of title 'Purchased at the sale of Mr Riddell of Glenriddell's Books at Edinr in March 1795 40/', armorial bookplate of Alexander Elphinston of Glack (17381795).Second edition, published in the same year as the first, revised and corrected by George Steevens, of this selection from the 'Paston Letters', a notable source for the history of England during the Wars of the Roses which had been acquired by Fenn in 1774. Fenn published a second selection in 1789, and a fifth volume appeared posthumously in 1823.Provenance:This copy comes from the library of the Scottish antiquary Robert Riddell (17551794), Laird of Friar's Carse, best known as a good friend of Robert Burns, whose farm Ellisland was less than a mile away. Burns had a key the grounds of Friar's Carse, wrote poems there, and helped Riddell found a circulating library; and Riddell was the recipient of the Glenriddell Manuscripts (which feature the same gilt stamp as here), comprising more than 50 poems and 27 letters, written for Riddell between 1791 and 1793, as well as an interleaved an annotation copy of the Scots Musical Museum. Shortly before Riddell's sudden death in April 1794, his friendship with Burns had come to dramatic close after an incident at Friar's Carse in which an inebriated Burns seems to have disgraced himself with his hostess Elizabeth, and was ejected unceremoniously an affair that for some time jeopardised his close friendship with Robert's sister-in-law Maria Riddell. In the present volume Riddell has noted Scottish interest in several places, and in the Preface he laments: 'When a British Museum has been with so great munificence endowed, by a British Parliam[en]t How great is the shame that its Curators should suffer such a Collection as this, to fall into private hands, when brought to a sale RR'. His library (including the present volume) was sold after his death in 1795 by Robert Ross. Language: English.

Volumes I & II (of V). 4to. pp. lxxvii, [1], 301; 2 p.l., 363. folding genealogical table. 3 hand-coloured engraved plates (incl. 2 frontis.), 15 (of 16) engraved plates of signatures, watermarks, seals & autograph letters (lacking plate VIII) & 2 engraved half-title vignettes. 19th century half calf, Vol. I rebacked (joints rubbed, corners worn, Vol. I flyleaf detached). First Edition. Two further volumes were published in 1789 and a fifth in 1823.