Author: WOOD, ANTHONY (1632-1695)
Title: Athenæ Oxonienses : An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most antient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, A.D. 1500, to the author's death... ...in November 1695. Representing the birth, fortune, preferment and death of all those authors and prelates ... To which are added, the Fasti, or annals, of the said university
Description: London : Printed for R. Knaplock. D. Midwinter. and J. Tonson. MDCCXXI. [1721] 1721. Second Edition. Very good copies both in the original. full. blind-tooled and ruled aniline calf. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with raised bands. gilt cross-bands and contrasting red Morocco gilt-blocked labels; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; The second edition. very much corrected and enlarged; with the addition of above 500 new lives from the author's original manuscript. Physical description; 2 v. 2 v. ([14] p. 742. [2]. 286 columns. [9] p.; [6] p. 1186. [2]. 238 columns. [9] p.) ; folio. 49 cm. Signatures: v. 1: [pi] a-c (-c2) B-Z4 2A-2Z4 3A4 3Z *A-*Z *Aa-*Mm Nn-Pp ; v. 2: [pi] a (-a2) B-Z42A-2Z4 3A-3Z4 4A-4Z4 4G (-4G2) *A-*Z *Aa-*Ii. Notes; Includes indexes. Title pages printed in red and black. The 'Fasti Oxonienses' have separate pagination and register. Subjects; University of Oxford - History - Alumni and alumnae - Registers. Head and tail pieces; initials. Title enclosed within double rule-border. Printed in double columns. By Anthony Wood. M.A. In two volumes.Weight in Kg appr.:

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