ARCHAEOLOGIA; Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Vol XX

London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1824. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A very good copy bound in half leather with marbled paper covered boards. A good soubd copy in clean condition, armorial bookplates of Granville Hastings Wheler to inside of front board. Notable for the quality and interest of their many engraved plates and plans (many fold-out) and textual illustrations. Contents of Volume XX include: I. Translation of a French metrical history of the deposition of King Richard II, written by a contemporary, and comprising the period from his last expedition into Ireland to his death by John Webb; II. An Inquiry concerning the death of Richard II by Thomas Amyot; III. Some Remarks on the Early Use of Carriages in England, and on the modes of travelling adopted by our ancestors by J H Markland; IV. Observations on the seal of Ethilwald Bishop of Dunwich, lately discovered at Eye, Suffolk by Hudson Gurney; V. Account of the Tomb of St John Chandos, Knt. A.D. 1370, at Civaux, a hamlet on the Vienne in France by Samuel Rush Meyrick; VI. Remarks on the ancient mode of putting on armour by S Rush Meyrick; VII. Account of the discovery of the Heart of Lord Edward Bruce at Culross in Perthshire by Lord Stowell; VIII. An Account of the First Battle of Saint Albans from a contemporary manuscript by John Bayley; IX. Remarks on the Population of English cities in the time of Edward III by T Amyot; X. Observation upon ancient charity boxes by John Adey Repton; XI. On the use of the Pax in the Roman Catholic Church by John Milner; XII. Remarks on the Gothic Ornaments of the Duomo, Battistero, and Campo Santo of Pisa by Arthur Taylor; XIII. Account of an Ancient Vessel recently found under the old bed of the River Rother in Kent by William McPherson Right; XIV. Description of the remains of Henry of Worcester, Abbot of Evesham, found in the ruins in the abbey church of Evesham, September 10 1822 by Edward Rudge..