leycester sir peter (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. hardback, large 8vo, pp.8,(vi),323-550, owner's name on endpaper, slight foxing, otherwise clean and sound, blindstamped green cloth, gilt titles, corners bumped and slightly frayed at spine ends, Good condition.

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1st edition. Good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spines and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remain quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; (3 volumes) frontispieces (including 2 portrait) 1 illustration. Contents; A defence of Amicia, daughter of Hugh Cyveliok, Earl of Chester . by Sir Thomas Mainwaring . 1673; An answer . entituled A defence of Amicia . by Sir Peter Leycester, 1673. Subjects; Mainwaring, Amicia active 1171. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Folio.338mm. Bound in 4's. Pp. [8], 1 - 83 [5] 89 - 392, [10], [2] 395 - 437 [3]. Added title pages at p. [85]: Some antiquities touching Cheshire . London : [publisher not identified], . M.DC LXII [1672]; at p. [393] A transcript of Cheshire at large, out of the greater Doomsday-book . according as the same was transcribed by Mr. Squire . London: [publisher not identified], M.DC.LXII [1672.] Addenda: pages [1]-[7] following pages 392. Errata: page [439] at end. Woodcut and engraved vignettes coats of arms in the text, head and tail pieces, plus a number of 5,8, and 11 line initials. The Speed map of Cheshire is lacking, as usual. The contents are clean, crisp and fresh. Contemporary plain unsophisticated calf, rubbed and faded with double blind fillets round the perimeter, three corners lightly bumped with the boards peeping through, the spine with five raised bands ( bindng cords slightly exposed), later ink hand written paper label, joints cracked but sound. White endpapers, the front pastedown with the armorial bookplate of Richard Clark Esq. ( 1739-1831) Chamberlain of London, a post he held for thirty-three years. Overall, a very good copy. Sir Robert Leycester(1614-1678), antiquary was born in Cheshire. Educated at Dasenose College, Oxford, and took the Royalist sied in the Civil War.' Historical Antiquities in two books . ' is renowned for its historical research and accuracy. However, the publication of the work led to a vitriolic controversy as the book questioned the legitamacy of Amicia , the wife of Ralph Mainwaring, one of Leycester's ancestors. For more details see ODNB. Wing L 1943; ESTC R 2116; Lowndes p. 1356. Upcott I, p.64,65,66. Sutton 418/419.