I have a two-volume set of the lives of Hearne and Wood; the woodcuts here are mostly from the first volume. which is The Life of Anthony à Wood From the Year 1632 to 1672, Written by Himself, and Published by Mr. Thomas Hearne.
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Front Cover
The book is bound in tooled leather, with marbled edges to the paper. The binding is the same on both volumes. |
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Title Page
Title page from volume I: [more...] |
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Ruins of the Abbey Church at Einsham
The Ruins of the Abbey Church of Einsham. 1657. Taken from the S.E. [more...] |
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Osney Abbey
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...] |
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Bampton Castle, West Side.
BAMPTON CASTLE ruines taken by Anthony a Wood Anno 1664 The West side [more...]
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Thomas Hearne M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon.
Thomas Hearne M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon. Obit 10 Junii. 1735. Ætat. 57. Vertue Soul [more...]
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The Castle of Oxford
This small woodcut shows Oxford Castle as it might have been shortly after it was built. [more...] |
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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...] |
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