Author: Philip Bliss (ed.)
Title: Reliquiae Hearnianae: The Remains of Thomas Hearne, M.A. , of Edmund Hall. Being Extracts from His Ms. Diaries, Collected with a Few Notes.
Description: London, John Russell Smith , 1869. Cloth. The complete three volume set of these interesting extracts from the diaries of Thomas Hearne. The enlarged second edition. Bound in full cloth with title plates to the spines. With bookbinders label for, 'W. Bone & Son' to the rear paste-down of volume one. With an engraved, monochrome frontispiece to the first volume. A complete three volume collection of extracts from the MS. diaries of Thomas Hearne. Collected with notes from the editor, Philip Bliss. Bliss was a British book collector and academic who served as Registrar of the University of Oxford and Principal of St Mary Hall. Thomas Hearne was a renowned English diarist and antiquary, remembered for his published editions of many medieval chronicles and other important historical works. With an advertisement to the front of volume one. Part of the publisher's, 'Library of Old Authors&apos. In full cloth binding. Externally, smart with fading to the spines and edges. Shelf wear to the edges. Bumping and chipping to the spines. Splitting to the upper extremities of the boards of volume one. The title plates are worn and darkened. Light spotting and offsetting to the paste-downs and endpapers. A bookseller's label to the front paste-down of volume one and a bookbinders label to the rear paste-down. Internally, firmly bound. Binding worn between the occasional pages. The odd spot throughout. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Keywords: Thomas Hearne Philip Bliss antiquities University of Oxford Philip Bliss Not Stated


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