shaw rev stebbing (2 Ergebnisse)

No binding. Folio, two volumes (470 x 290 mm.) each, volume 1 and volume 2 part 1 (all published)], full contemporary calf, ornate gilt and blind panelled boards, rebacked spine with ornate gilt and blind ribs, central gilt design to compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. With typographic title pages, pp. xxiv, (2), 125, xxxviii, 434, 38; containing two folding engraved maps, 82 engraved and aquatint plates (few folding), four folding genealogical tables, engraved illustrations, lacking half title, some offsetting as often, occasional browning and scattered spotting, otherwise a good example. Stebbing Shaw (1762-1802) was a historian born in Staffordshire. He became a fellow of Queen's College Cambridge in 1786 and was ordained in in the same year. In the 1790s he became inspired to produce a history of Staffordshire. In 1795 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. The first volume was published in 1798 but shortly after his health started failing. A second volume was published in 1801 but his death on 28 October 1802 left the whole work incomplete. The large folding map of the county is a reduction of that by William Yates published in 1775. It was engraved by Thomas Foot (fl.1790-1825), who became the principal engraver for the Ordnance Survey in 1801. However, in 1804 he was imprisoned for debt. King states that the Shaw issues lack the words 'Planned by a Scale of Two Miles to an Inch', however here they are present. Bound into the second volume is a fine folding plan of Wolverhampton by Isaac Taylor. Provenance: with bookplate of John Wells Esq. (Franks 31289); bookplate of United University Club Library (closed 1971) inside rear boards of both volumes; Heritage Maps, Edgbaston, 1988; private English collection. Anderson (1881) p. 257; ESTC T149642; King (1988) no. 54; ODNB; Rodgers (1972) 406; Smith, B (2006) in 'IMCoS Journal' 107 pp. 21-26; Tooley (1999-2004); Upcott (1968) 1176-85; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Folio, (454x291mm), 2 volumes (all published) Vol. I and Vol. 2 Pt I, no half titles (Vol.2 not called for), pp: Vol. 1 - [2],v-xvi,xxi-xxiv,[2],1-125,[1],i-xii,*xi-*xii,xiii-xxxviii,1-156,*153-*158,157-164.165*-166*,165-210,207*-214*,211-4 14,*411-*416,415-434,1-38 and Vol 2 pp: xxxii,1-13,[1],1-22.*21-*22,23-30.27*-30*,31-106,105*-107,107-172,*171-*172,173- 220,*221-*222,221-290,1-20. Plates A,B,C & D & 78 plates, being 82 plates, complete, with a double-page plan, a large folding county map surveyed by W. Yates. Well illustrated throughout text incl. 3 folding pedigrees. Vol. 2 contains the Plan of Wolverhampton by Isaac Taylor which is trimmed close to the fore edge, marbled endpapers, A remarkably clean, crisp & handsome copy with an extraordinary collation of 4 lines. Suffice to say it is complete with text, plates, map, plan & folding pedigrees. Tall copy with good margins, bound by Riviere & Son with their stamp in half crimson crushed morocco, & complementary boards, spines lettered direct with title, author & date to base of spines, wide raised bands, gilt ruled to spine & boards. A sound, tight, handsome copy.Stebbing Shaw (1762-1802) was an English cleric, local historian and topographer, born near Stone, Staffordshire. Educated at Repton School, and on 24 May 1780 was admitted as pensioner at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he made the acquaintance of Sir Egerton Brydges. He gradudated B.A. 1784, M.A. 1787, and B.D. 1796, was elected scholar on 4 February 1784, fellow on 13 January 1786, and took orders in the Church of England. He was elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 5 March 1795. The first volume of Shaw's History and Antiquities of Staffordshire came out in 1798, and a fragment part of the second volume was published in 1801. It contained many of his own illustrations, some of which had already appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine.