Fascimiles Of National Manuscripts From William the Conqueror to Queen Anne. Selected Under The Direction Of The Master Of The Rolls & Photozincographed By Command Of Her Majesty Queen Victoria By Sir Henry James, R.E. Director Of The Ordnance Surve

by James, Colonel Sir Henry

1st edition.

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Book description: Southampton, , 1865-68. 1st edition. . Orig. cloth, attractive gilt lettered covers w/ large gilt lions seals, spines & joints neatly taped. Covers show wear, 1 msg. some cloth near front bottom, all the cover edges worn w/ some cloth msg. on or near edges, all spines & joints quite neatly taped with recent black tape. Internally, generally quite nice throughout, tps. w/ blindstamps of Cleveland Seminary & a few other markings, extremely light page aging, all hinges cracked on these extremely large size volumes but all of the covers are on v. firmly & the book blocks solid. Gd. plus overall, contents vg. Folio. Exceptionally rare work. Parts I - IV complete in 4 oversize vols., measuring 11 3/4 x 16in. & weighing 28 lbs. "With Translations And Notes." "Published By The Authority Of The Lords Commissioners Of Her Majesty's Treasury, etc., Southampton." Coated paper. Title pages in red & black w/ crown & large round engrd. seal. With highly extensive note section on each document at beginning of each vol. Each vol. illustrated throughout with extensive collection of exact fascimiles of actual orig. manuscript documents, letters, orders, petitions, etc. from that period with letterpress transcriptions & translations into English of the orig. manuscript dcmts. on the facing page. Important for any researcher, or institution because vast majority of the dcmts. shown here in exact perfect dark fascimile of the entire document are available only in this set & shown nowhere else. Almost certainly not even the translations are printed elsewhere. With valuable fascimiles of the signatures & sometimes actual handwriting (other than secretarial) of many English & European royal & political figures. A few of the fascimile dcmts. are oversize & fldg., many multi-page, The dcmts. deal with English & European political & foreign policy matters & much else. In Latin mostly, a few in French, Old English, & English. Part I (Vol. I) contains 70 "photozincographic" fascimiles (a process invented by James to produce the fascimiles). The dcmts. cover the years under the reigns of William the Conqueror through King Henry VII. Part II (Vol. 2) contains 67 fascimiles covering the years under the reigns of King Henry VIII through King Edward VI. Part II (Vol. 3) contains 93 fascimiles covering the years under the reigns of Queen Mary through Queen Elizabeth I. Part IV (Vol. 4) contains 101 fascimiles covering the years under the reigns of King James I through the beginning of Queen Anne's reign. Total of 331 fascimile dcmts. in the 4 volumes. NO list available! This set not in the British Library, in the British Union Catalog (COPAC), in the Library of Congress, nor on OCLC. With prntd. bookplate on fixed ep, "This Book Is Bishop Gilmour's, And After His Death Belongs To Seminary Library, Cleveland." Additional shipping required.

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