Author: Frederick S. Boas
Title: The Diary of Thomas Crosfield
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1935. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce and interesting diary by Thomas Crosfield, written in the seventeenth century, published posthumously not until 1935. First edition. This diary was first published in 1935, almost three-hundred years after its author's death. Thomas Crosfield was born in 1602 and died in 1663; he was a student at Oxford University, and lived through the civil war period. His diary vividly describes the life at university during his time. Most of what is known about him comes from his diaries which he kept from 1626 to 1640 and then again in the 1650s. With unclipped dustwrapper. Illustrated. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally lovely with minor shelfwear only. Dustwrapper is excellent with minor shelfwear only. Unclipped. Internally, firmly bound. Minor faint spotting to fore edge, not affecting pages which are bright and clean throughout. With frontispiece and three illustrations. Fine . Ill.: Unnamed. Fine/Fine.
Keywords: diaries university crosfield dustwrapper university illustrations Unnamed
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Title: The Diary of Thomas Crosfield
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1935. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce and interesting diary by Thomas Crosfield, written in the seventeenth century, published posthumously not until 1935. First edition. This diary was first published in 1935, almost three-hundred years after its author's death. Thomas Crosfield was born in 1602 and died in 1663; he was a student at Oxford University, and lived through the civil war period. His diary vividly describes the life at university during his time. Most of what is known about him comes from his diaries which he kept from 1626 to 1640 and then again in the 1650s. With unclipped dustwrapper. Illustrated. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally lovely with minor shelfwear only. Dustwrapper is excellent with minor shelfwear only. Unclipped. Internally, firmly bound. Minor faint spotting to fore edge, not affecting pages which are bright and clean throughout. With frontispiece and three illustrations. Fine . Ill.: Unnamed. Fine/Fine.
Keywords: diaries university crosfield dustwrapper university illustrations Unnamed
Price: GBP 48.00 = appr. US$ 68.54 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 756A1
- Book number: 756A1
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