Author: [Thoroton, Robert:] Throsby, John:
Title: Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: republished, with large additions, by John Throsby, and embellished with picturesque and select views of seats of the nobility and gentry, towns, village churches and ruins.
Description: Nottingham: published by J. Throsby […] & sold […] by Messrs. Burbage, Tupman, Wilson & Gray, booksellers & J. Wigley, engraver, 1797 [i.e. 1790-7]. Second edition. 3 vols., 4to., pp.xx, 406, [ii] + 28 plates; 324, [vi] + 42 plates (lacks one plate, the three views of Sneyton opposite p.155); 453, [xxiii] + 33 plates. Portrait frontispiece and added engraved title page to each volume, copious plates and maps some still with tissue guards, a few hand coloured. Some foxing and dampstaining throughout, particularly near the start of each volume. Vol. I: some grey smudgy marks to first few pages, ffep loosening, a few page numbers have become tiny holes, closed horizontal tear about halfway across O1 (no loss). Vol. II: closed tear to 3O2 affecting a couple of words, plate for p.212 is opposite p.210, plate for p.302 is opposite p.301. Vol.III: yellow mark to pp.192-3. Second, expanded edition of Robert Thoroton's (1623–1678) History, edited by antiquary and artist John Throsby (1740-1803). Robert Thoroton (1623–1678) 'commenced his Antiquities of Nottinghamshire in 1667. He first worked on some transcript notes which his father-in-law Gilbert Boun had made from Domesday Book. He assisted Sir William Dugdale in his Visitation of Nottinghamshire, 1662–1664. For his researches he employed paid assistants at considerable expense to himself, delving into family archives, registers (some now lost), estate papers, church monuments, and epitaphs. Like a number of county antiquaries he was little concerned with his own times, or indeed with his own century, but tried to trace the manorial history of each parish back to Domesday. He showed little interest in Roman remains, while protesting at enclosure and destruction of woods. His notes, made on the back of letters from his patients in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Derbyshire, are now in Nottingham Public Library. The folio volume of Thoroton's Antiquities was printed in London in 1677, illustrated with engravings by Hollar after Richard Hall and dedicated to Gilbert Sheldon, archbishop of Canterbury, and Dugdale, both personal friends. Dugdale wrote to the antiquary Sir Daniel Fleming, 'Dr Thoroton's book cost me 16s to 18s. I do esteem the book well worth your buying, though had he gone to the fountain of records it might have been better done' (1 Sept 1677, Le Fleming MSS, 139–40). John Throsby published a reprint of Antiquities with additions, in three volumes (published 1790–96 but dated 1797).' (ODNB). Throsby worked on his edition between 1790 and 1797. The section on Nottingham, containing 'all that is valuable in Deering', initially appeared alone in 1795 and in 1797 was reprinted as part of this three-volume series, illustrated again Throsby's own drawings. ESTC T99860; Upcott 1051.

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