The Life Of Anthony à Wood

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.

Front Cover

Front Cover

The book is bound in tooled leather, with marbled edges to the paper. The binding is the same on both volumes.

319x500 41K, 532x832 110K, 709x1110 217K, 946x1480 372K
Title Page

Title Page

Title page from volume I: [more...]

287x500 15K, 431x750 28K, 575x1001 42K, 766x1334 61K
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...]

500x431 39K, 910x785 112K, 1213x1046 170K, 1619x1396 275K, 2158x1861 444K
Osney Abbey

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...]

500x199 31K, 664x264 54K, 885x352 118K, 1180x470 201K, 1574x627 334K, 2098x835 577K
Bampton Castle, West Side.

Bampton Castle, West Side.

BAMPTON CASTLE ruines taken by Anthony a Wood Anno 1664
The West side [more...]

500x251 33K, 854x429 91K, 1139x572 145K, 1519x763 237K, 2026x1017 463K, 2701x1356 752K
Thomas Hearne M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon.

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...]

340x500 51K, 590x867 173K, 787x1158 325K, 1050x1543 565K
The Castle of Oxford

The Castle of Oxford

This small woodcut shows Oxford Castle as it might have been shortly after it was built. [more...]

500x375 47K, 800x600 108K, 1024x768 162K, 1600x1200 330K, 3832x2792 621K (wallpaper)
Title page, New Year's Gift

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...]

289x500 18K, 454x784 39K, 605x1045 62K, 807x1394 98K, 1613x2787 293K


$Id: mkgallery,v 1.64 2008/01/02 04:05:10 lee Exp lee $

Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!