Stapleton thomas editor (2 Ergebnisse)

1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (near Fine), dustwrapper (light wear at edges - otherwise VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 312 (extensive pencil underlining and annotations in margins).

Stapleton, Thomas [1806-1849], Editor. Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae sub Regibus Angliae. London: Sumptibus Soc. Antiq. Londinensis, 1840-44. 2 vols. Frontispieces and a hand-colored folding map. Quarto (10" x 6-1/4"). Publisher's textured green cloth, lettering pieces to spines. Ex-library with gilt institutional name and seal to boards, library bookplates and shelf labels to front pastedowns, and ink library stamps to title pages and a few leaves in each volume. Light rubbing, soiling and faint dampstaining to boards, light wear to extremities, front board of Vol. I detached, joints cracked or starting, chipping to spine ends, corners bumped. Light toning to interior, light foxing and soiling in a few places, a few partial cracks to text block, all leaves secure, most signatures unopened. $150. * Only edition. Thomas Stapleton was a member of the Society of Antiquaries and one of its vice presidents from 1846-1850. This work, an edition of the Norman exchequer rolls, was "his most important literary work.which 150 years later remains the authoritative edition of these important twelfth-century records" (ODNB). Volume I contains "the Roll of 1180, the fragment of the Roll of 1184 (being all that is extant of the reign of Henry II) and the earlier Roll of Richard I [1195]." Volume 2 contains "the later Roll of Richard I (1198) and the detached membranes of Rolls of the time of King John [1201-1203]." Each volume also contains "Observations on the Great rolls of the Exchequer of Normandy" with full indexes. (A projected general index of persons and places was never published.) The work was later reprinted in the Memoires de la Societe des antiquaires de Normandie, Vols. XV-XVI (Paris, 1845-52).…