Author: Dugdale, Sir William.
Title: MONASTICON ANGLICANUM: A History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, With Their Dependencies, in England and Wales; Also of all such Scotch, Irish and French Monasteries, as Were in any Manner Connected with Religious Houses in England. Together with a Particular Account of Their Respective Foundations, Grants and Donations, and a Full Statement of their Possessions, as well as Temporal as Spiritual. Originally Published in Latin.
Description: T.G. March ..., 1849. Reprint of 1817 New Ed. Enriched with a Large Accession of Materials Now First Printed from Leiger Books, Chartularies, Rolls, and Other Documents Preserved in the National Archives, Public Libraries, and Other Repositories; The History of Each Religious Foundation in English Being Prefixed to its Respective Series of Latin Charters by John Caley, Henry Ellis and Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. 6 vols. bound in 8. Folio. Engraved half title after Hollar to vol. 1., 26 plans, 216 plates with over 50 double page, 2 letterpress plates, numerous decorative/historiated intial letters. Some offsetting and light browning, ex-libris ‘D.W.S. Alleyn’s ‘36-’39’, marbled e.p.s., contemporary binding by Webb & Hunt of Liverpool in half red morocco with marbled boards, some surface wear to boards, extremities rubbed, some joints cracked with lower board to vol. 1 detached, spines rubbed with loss particularly to tails of vols. 3 4 & 8, all gilt edges gauffered. ¶ The plates mainly drawn and engraved by John Coney especially for 1817 edition, the chief of the 50 odd prints of after Hollar re-engraved. Sir William Dugdale (1605–1686), antiquary and herald. ODNB ‘... The scale of his operations was greater than any previous endeavour, and its achievements were astonishing, especially in view of the disorder of the records from which he worked. Monasticon Anglicanum opened up a new area of historical research, and provided the foundations for such future investigations as Henry Wharton's Anglia Sacra (1691) and Thomas Tanner's Notitia Monastica (1695) ...’

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