Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of Several Essays on the First Inhabitants, Druid-superstition, Customs, and Remains of the most remote Antiquity in Britain, and the British Isles, exemplified and proved by Monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, with a Vocabulary of the Cornu-British Language
London, Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for S. Baker and G. Leigh, T. Payne, and Benjamin White, 1769 ('Second Edition, revised, with several Additions')/ [1754].
Folio, xvi, 464 pages with 13 illustrations plus 25 plates (one folding) and 2 maps (one folding).
Modern ledger-style half calf and cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine; leather rubbed, marked and a little sunned; cloth a little marked; minor worming to the bottom margin of the first ten leaves (with tissue-paper repairs to the first four); first and last two leaves (three of them blank) heavily foxed, with scattered foxing elsewhere; bottom edge of the folding map of Cornwall reinforced with paper on the verso, with minimal loss to the bottom and leading margins, and some creases along the folds; old damp-stain near the bottom corner of the last 40 leaves; paper infill to minor loss to the leading edge of the second-last leaf (affecting the first word of eight entries in the Wea-Wel section of the Cornish-English vocabulary); early tissue-paper repairs to a handful of leaves; overall, a decent copy.
The early ownership details of 'Glasson | Greenbank | Falmouth' are written in ink at the head of the title page; later, the armorial bookplate of the Blackmore Museum Library, Salisbury was mounted on the verso of the title leaf; most recently, Emeritus Professor J.V.S. Megaw appended his small pictorial bookplate to the front pastedown.
Item #142086
Price (AUD):
$750.00