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(WOOD, Anthony).
Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History Of All The Writers and Bishops Who have had their Education in The most ancient and famous University Of Oxford From The Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Com. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. Representing The Birth, Fortune,...........of all those Authors and Prelates.....To which are added, The Fasti or Annals, of the said University, For the same time.
London: Printed for Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon in S. Pauls Churchyard, 1691-1692. In two volumes. First edition.
Folio, full contemporary calf, leather spine labels, (8), 904 (in columns, 2 pp. per side of each leaf) , (1), (8)pp; (6), 906 (in columns 2 pp. per side of each leaf), (10)pp. [a2, B-N4, O2, P-2R4, 2S-4G2; A2, B-2X4, 2Y-4E2.]
This copy has been rebacked in the 19th century with an earlier leather label laid down on the spine, some minor wear but in fact a near fine copy.
Anthony Wood [1632-1695] English antiquary educated at Merton College. He obtained permission to use the Bodleian and then began systematically to copy monumental inscriptions and for antiquities in the city and neighbourhood. The keeper, Dr. John Wallis allowed him access to the University registers in 1660 and this work became the foundation for his later History and Antiquities of Oxford. In 1678 the registers that had been in his for eighteen years were removed, s it was feared that he would be implicated in the Popish plot. During this time he worked on his great work, the above title, published in 1691-92. "Wood's Athenae is an invaluable work, both as respects biography and bibliography...." (Lowndes).
$1500 CAD
(WOOD, Anthony).Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History Of All The Writers and Bishops Who have had their Education in The most ancient and famous University Of Oxford From The Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Com. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. Representing The Birth, Fortune,...........of all those Authors and Prelates.....To which are added, The Fasti or Annals, of the said University, For the same time.
London: Printed for Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon in S. Pauls Churchyard, 1691-1692. In two volumes. First edition.
Folio, full contemporary calf, leather spine labels, (8), 904 (in columns, 2 pp. per side of each leaf) , (1), (8)pp; (6), 906 (in columns 2 pp. per side of each leaf), (10)pp. [a2, B-N4, O2, P-2R4, 2S-4G2; A2, B-2X4, 2Y-4E2.]
This copy has been rebacked in the 19th century with an earlier leather label laid down on the spine, some minor wear but in fact a near fine copy.
Anthony Wood [1632-1695] English antiquary educated at Merton College. He obtained permission to use the Bodleian and then began systematically to copy monumental inscriptions and for antiquities in the city and neighbourhood. The keeper, Dr. John Wallis allowed him access to the University registers in 1660 and this work became the foundation for his later History and Antiquities of Oxford. In 1678 the registers that had been in his for eighteen years were removed, s it was feared that he would be implicated in the Popish plot. During this time he worked on his great work, the above title, published in 1691-92. "Wood's Athenae is an invaluable work, both as respects biography and bibliography...." (Lowndes).
$1500 CAD
