Neve, John le.
MONUMENTA ANGLICANA: Being Inscriptions on the Monuments Of several Eminent Persons Deceased in or since the Year 1650. to the end of the Year 1679. Deduced into a Series of Time by way of Annals.
London: Printed by Will. Bowyer, 1718. 1st Ed. [16],200,[12]p. Latin/English text. Half title present. Dec. devices and initial letters. With the signature of ‘R.W. Hellewell Liverpool, Oct. 1933 ...’, some light browning, waterstain, sm. ownership label to rear f.e.p., modern e.ps., C20th sheep boards, rebacked in modern leather with gilt lettered label to spine.
¶ Inscribed to half title ‘To Warren R. Dawson, Esqr. from R.A. Hallewell; Liverpool April 1927.’ Warren Royal Dawson OBE FRSE FRSM FZS FSA FLS FRSL (1888-1968, Bletchley) English librarian, insurance agent, Egyptologist and antiquarian. ESTC T146558. John Le Neve, (b. 1679, d. in or before 1741), antiquary. ‘... Le Neve's other major publication was [the above] supposedly 'a specimen of a much larger work', which drew on Peter Le Neve's manuscripts and information from the masons who carved the actual monuments recorded. Supplements to this work covering the periods 1650–79 and 1680–99 were published in 1718, and in 1719 a fourth volume appeared for the period 1600–49. Le Neve intended to take the work back to 1400 but, although he carried out research for this, no volume covering this part of the project was printed, and Le Neve instead had to satisfy himself with a fifth volume containing those monuments dating between 1650 and 1718 'collected since the publication of the former volumes' ...’
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