Registrum roffense collection antient (8 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Transcribed from the originals by John Thorpe, late of Rochester and published by his son John Thorpe. vi, subscribers list x2, 1056pp plus index 16. Ex library Rochester. Library bound with bookplate to front pastedown and one stamp only to the reverse of the titlr page.…

Hardcover. Folio. Quarter black calf with raised bands and gilt lettering and tan cloth over rounded-corner boards. vi, (2pp), 1056pp, (16pp). Frontispiece. Very good. Internally tight, bright, uniformly lovely; miniscule modern ownership signature on title page verso. Tight and attractive first edition of this hefty compilation of early Rochester architectural and antiquity records gathered by physician and antiquarian John Thorpe Sr. (1682-1750), then compiled and published by his son John Thorpe (1715-92), an English gent from the quaint age when one could make a living performing antiquarian research, as this tome and a 1788 supplement ("Custumale Roffense") attest. Interestingly, laid in is a 6½" X 7 3/4" sheet, clearly of 18th century vintage, containing several columns of last names and page numbers, continuing on verso, all neatly inked in black ink -- apparently an early owner's genealogical findings. Modern owner's miniscule pencilled note on rear pastedown lists archival work done: "Rebacked Mar 8-10 '63 -- boards of course reused -- original old sheepskin rotted to dust -- endpapers were marbled, faded, partly lost, friable.".…

FIRST EDITION, folio, pp. [4], vi, [2], 697, [5], 701-1056, [16] + frontispiece. Contemporary paste-paper patterned boards backed in calf, red morocco label. Some toning and spotting. Rubbed and worn, joints cracked but sound. Bookplate of James Shepherd to pastedown, small modern ownership inscription to flyleaf, gift inscription dated 1871 (Thomas Bullard from his cousin Ann Bullard) to second flyleaf, ownership inscriptions to title-page of J.S. Bullard (1850), J. Shepherd (1797), and note ?the late Mr Tho. Tomly no.?, some modern marginal notes in pencil. The monumental collection of historical documentation relating to Rochester made by the antiquary John Thorpe (1682-1750), and posthumously published by his son John (1715/16-1792).…

Zustand: Good. Large format. In original full brown leather binding with gilt title and decoration to spine, raised bands, some rubbing and shelfwear to extremities of book, binding sound, contents fine.