![[picture: Front Cover]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Hearne-LifeOfWood/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-319x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]") |
The book is bound in tooled leather, with marbled edges to the paper. The binding is the same on both volumes. |
![[picture: Title Page]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Hearne-LifeOfWood/tn/000-Title-Page-q75-287x500.jpg "[picture: Title Page]") |
Title page from volume I: [more...] |
![[picture: Ruins of the Abbey Church at Einsham]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Hearne-LifeOfWood/tn/104-Ruins-of-the-Abbey-Church-at-Einsham-q75-500x431.jpg "[picture: Ruins of the Abbey Church at Einsham]") |
Ruins of the Abbey Church at Einsham The Ruins of the Abbey Church of Einsham. 1657. Taken from the S.E. [more...] |
![[picture: Osney Abbey]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Hearne-LifeOfWood/tn/135-Osney-Abbey-q75-500x199.jpg "[picture: Osney Abbey]"){kind=small} |
This woodcut is taken from a sketch that Thomas Hearne made of Osney Abbey and published in the Rextus Roffensis in 1720; it is reproduced in this book from 1772, along with the accompanying text which presumably is also from around 1772, and starts on page 135 of Volume I: [more...] |
![[picture: Bampton Castle, West Side.]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Hearne-LifeOfWood/tn/193-Bampton-Castle-q75-500x251.jpg "[picture: Bampton Castle, West Side.]") |
BAMPTON CASTLE ruines taken by Anthony a Wood Anno 1664 |
![[picture: Thomas Hearne M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon.]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Hearne-LifeOfWood/tn/LifeOfHearne-000-Thomas-Hearne-q75-340x500.jpg "[picture: Thomas Hearne M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon.]") |
Thomas Hearne M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon. Thomas Hearne M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon. |
![[picture: The Castle of Oxford]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Hearne-LifeOfWood/tn/LifeOfHearne-128-The-Castle-of-Oxford-q75-500x375.jpg "[picture: The Castle of Oxford]") |
This small woodcut shows Oxford Castle as it might have been shortly after it was built. [more...] |
![[picture: Title page, New Year's Gift]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Hearne-LifeOfWood/tn/LifeOfLeland-Bale-NewYearsGift-001-title-page-q75-289x500.jpg "[picture: Title page, New Year's Gift]") |
This scan shows the title page from the 1772 edition of John Leland’s New Year’s Gift, which was printed as a fac-simile (such as technology then allowed) of the original 1549 edition of John Bale. [more...] |