Format:
1 online resource (xxiii, 304 pages)
ISBN:
9781108079334
,
9781316018071
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. British and Irish history, general
Content:
This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (17701831) 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 (162697) 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 1 consist of letters between antiquaries including Kenelm Digby, John Cotton and William Dugdale, on topics ranging from the Cornish language and the cure for a bite from a mad dog to the visit of the Princess Anne to Oxford during the tumult of her father's deposition in 1688
Note:
Originally published in London by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown in 1813
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108079334
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108079334
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316018071
URL:
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