Miscellaneous antiquities; or, A collection of curious papers: either republished from scarce tracts, or now first printed from original MSS.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner.

Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823, annotator.

Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner.

Dufief, N. G., 1776?-1834, bookseller.

Language:

English

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

2 v. : 4⁰.

Irregular

Number I.-Number II.

Other Title:

Miscellaneous antiquities

Portion of title: Collection of curious papers

Place of Publication:

Strawberry-Hill [England] : printed by Thomas Kirgate, M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]

Notes:

Title from caption.

Note on title page: "To be continued occasionally."

No. 1 has a preliminary "Advertisement" to the reader.

Title and number repeated as caption at head of first page of text.

Vertical chain lines; printed in one column; paginated.

Imprints include year of publication.

Issues include excerpts from Sir William Seger's Honor, military and civill (London, 1602), and a transcription by Thomas Gray of Thomas Wyatt's trial and defense from an unpublished Harleian MSS, with an appendix on the accusations against Anne Boleyn.

Contains reprints of manuscripts and rare publications, including: account of tourmants from 1602, notes on a military triumph in Brussels in 1549, military triumphs for honor and love of ladies, and an appeal to the romantic chivalry of the past.

Issues lack chronological designation.

No more published.

Local Notes:

Benjamin Franklin's copy.

HSP in LCP.

Historical Society copy of Number I (Af.398.2): Bound with Bigland, Observations, q.v.; item 2 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand with additions in a later hand; minor contemporary corrections on pp. 6 and 58; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (18); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Historical Society copy of Number II: Bound with Tatham, Oxonia, q.v.; item 2 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary floral boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (25); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:XXXX

Crane & Kaye, 549