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Item #53124 Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops Who Have Had Their Education in the University of Oxford. To Which Are Added The Fasti, or Annals of the Said University. A New Edition, with Additions... Vol. I. [-IV.]. Anthony A. Wood, Philip Bliss.
Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops Who Have Had Their Education in the University of Oxford. To Which Are Added The Fasti, or Annals of the Said University. A New Edition, with Additions... Vol. I. [-IV.]
Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops Who Have Had Their Education in the University of Oxford. To Which Are Added The Fasti, or Annals of the Said University. A New Edition, with Additions... Vol. I. [-IV.]
Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops Who Have Had Their Education in the University of Oxford. To Which Are Added The Fasti, or Annals of the Said University. A New Edition, with Additions... Vol. I. [-IV.]

Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops Who Have Had Their Education in the University of Oxford. To Which Are Added The Fasti, or Annals of the Said University. A New Edition, with Additions... Vol. I. [-IV.]

London: for F.C. and J. Rivington... and J. Parker, 1813. Third edition. Hardcover. 4 volumes, large quarto (12 x 9.25 in.), published between 1813 and 1820. Vol I: 16, [4], clxxvii pp, 788 cols; Vol. II: [4]pp., 912; 520 cols; Vol. III: [4]pp.,1290 cols; Vol. IV: vi, [2]pp., 1082 cols, [3: blank; errata]; [4]pp., 502 cols. (Fasti in 2 parts appears in the second and fourth volumes, each with separate full titles dated 1815 and 1820). Woodcut cartouches (arms of the University of Oxford) at section headings throughout; woodcut cartouche (arms of Lord Grenville) at dedication; 10 woodcut armorial initials (Anthon a Wood; Philip Bliss; Bishop Kennet; Bishop Tanner; Merton College; St. John's College; Thomas Baker; Bishop Barlow; Bishop Humphreys; Sir Philip Sydenham). Contemporary half black calf over marbled boards. Spine with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt. Marbled edges and endleaves. Green silk ribbon markers. Mild shelf wear to boards, and touches of light wear at the joints and extremities, occasional faint touches of foxing at outermost leaves, light-moderate foxing at ten pages in the Fasti (vol. II), else a fine set with unusually fresh, clean text, handsomely bound.

Complete set of the augmented third edition, a notable achievement and "the only bibliography of its kind published in England, and the most extensive anywhere." Breslauer and Folter go on to note the unexpected dangers lurking behind the scenes of bio-bibliographical production: "The work earned the author expulsion from the University for a libel it contains on the first Earl of Clarendon." Fine. Item #53124

References: Breslauer & Folter 87.

Full title and imprint: Athenae Oxonienses. An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the university of Oxford. To which are added The Fasti, or Annals of the said university by Anthony A. Wood, M.A. of Merton College. A new edition, with additions, and a continuation by Philip Bliss, Fellow of St. John's College. Vol. I. [-IV.] Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; Lackington, Allen, and Co.; T. Payne; White, Cochrane, and Co.; Longman, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; J. and A. Arch; J. Mawman; Black, Parry, and Co.; R.H. Evans; J. Booth, London: and J. Parker, Oxford: 1813-1820.

Price: $1,200.00

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