UID:
almahu_9947415617802882
Format:
1 online resource (352 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781316018095 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. British and Irish history, general
Content:
This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770–1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men' furnished by John Aubrey (1626–97) to Anthony à Wood, who was at the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813 work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the entirety of the third. Volume 2, Part 1 contains letters to and from the librarian and antiquary Thomas Hearne, as well as two accounts of Hearne's travels, on foot to Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire in 1716, and on horseback to Reading and Silchester in 1714, and the first fifty (organised alphabetically from Aiton to Fletcher) of Aubrey's 'lives'.
Note:
Originally published in London by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown in 1813.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108079341
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316018095
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