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The lives of those eminent antiquaries John Leland, Thomas Hearne, and Anthony à Wood : with an authentick account of their respective writings and publications, from original papers : In which are occasionally inserted, memoirs relating to many eminent persons, and various parts of literature : also several engravings of antiquity, never before published.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leland, John, 1506?-1552.
- Leland, John.
- Hearne, Thomas, 1678-1735.
- Hearne, Thomas.
- Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.
- Wood, Anthony à.
- England--Antiquities.
- England.
- Authors, English.
- Antiquarians--England--Biography.
- Antiquarians.
- Antiquities.
- Genre:
- Biography
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, frontispieces, plates (some folded), portrait ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Printed at the Clarendon Press, for J. and J. Fletcher, in the Turl, and Joseph Pote, at Eton College, MDCCLXXII [1772]
- Contents:
- Vol. I, pt. I. The life of John Leland ... to which is added: I. The antient treatise of Leland's New Years gyfte to K. Henry, with the commentaries of J. Bale, first printed in the year 1549 [reprint of The laboryouse journey & search of John Leylande ... Emprented at London, 1549]. II. A summary account of the said J. Bale.
- pt. II. The life of Mr. Thomas Hearne. vol. II. The life of Mr. Anthony à Wood.
- Notes:
- Part II of vol. 1 has special title page: The life of Mr. Thomas Hearne ... from his own MS. copy ... Oxford : Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1772.
- Edited by W. Huddesford and T. Warton.
- The life of Leland is by Huddesford; the lives of Hearne and à Wood are autobiographical with additions.
- Includes advertisements.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- HSP copies
- Cited in:
- ESTC, T136038
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lives of those eminent antiquaries John Leland, Thomas Hearne, and Anthony à Wood.
- OCLC:
- 1369389
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