Wood, Anthony

Athenae Oxonienses. An exact history of all the vvriters and bishops who have had their education in the most ancient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the end of the year 1690. Representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings. To which are added, the Fasti or Annals, of the said university, for the same time. Volume I & II, [2 volumes in 1]

      , London Published by Thomas Bennet , 1691-92. , [viii], 904 columns [2 columns per page], [9], [vi], 905 columns, [10], collated, title page for each volume printed in red and black, decorative head-pieces and initials, pages misnumbered pages (printing error) after 749 in vol 1 and 96 in vol 2 but nothing missing First Edition Quarto, 39 x 24 cm Hardback , corners bumped, some surface loss at edges of boards, crack at upper rear joint but firmly bound, previous owner's bookplate (D.A.W. Russell) on front pastedown, title page thumbed and lightly spotted, occasional light spots at margins, text clean and complete, book in very good condition , later full tree calf, gilt titles on red leather spine label, 6 raised bands with gilt decoration. Quarto, 39 x 24 cm